The main thrust of Loughran’s paper “Parks for Profit: The High Line, Growth Machines, and the Uneven Development of Urban Public Spaces” seems to be the emphasis of the High Line as the paradigm for the new trend in development, in which…

As I read through Jane Jacobs attack on orthodox planning theory and their lack of empirical supportive data in her famous 1961 work  The Death and Life of Great American Cities , I initially felt swept up in her arguments.…