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67. Parks for Profit
To some, the postindustrial linear park, exemplified by the
High Line in New York City, is one of the prime examples of the resurgence of the city that has taken place in the last few decades. But for Unfrozen guest Kevin Loughran, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University, the postindustrial
park is also a vector of gentrification and privatization of cities: a kind of “death show of zombie plants and railroad corpses.” Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City (Columbia University Press,
2022), his first book, offers a critique of the High Line, Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston, and the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago.
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Intro/Outro: “Post-Industrial Necrofolk,” by Vredenstal
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Discussed:
The High Line
Buffalo Bayou Park: Prime donor: Rich Kinder, Kinder Morgan / The Kinder Foundation
Discovery Green
Bloomingdale Trail/The 606
Philadelphia Rail Park
Kelly Drive - Philadelphia
The Central Park Conservancy
The Trust for Public Land
Millennium Park, a network of corporate-branded spaces
Atlanta Belt Line
The QueensWay, NYC
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The “picturesque” as a historical element of 19th-century
imperialism.
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Landscape as a colonial tool.
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Parks conceived as safe spaces for white women
and children in rapidly industrializing and ethnographically changing.
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Counterpoint: Small parks pioneered by Jane
Addams and Hull House.
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Three-point manifesto:
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To some, the postindustrial linear park, exemplified by the
High Line in New York City, is one of the prime examples of the resurgence of the city that has taken place in the last few decades. But for Unfrozen guest Kevin Loughran, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University, the postindustrial
park is also a vector of gentrification and privatization of cities: a kind of “death show of zombie plants and railroad corpses.” Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City (Columbia University Press,
2022), his first book, offers a critique of the High Line, Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston, and the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago.
--
Intro/Outro: “Post-Industrial Necrofolk,” by Vredenstal
--
Discussed:
The High Line
Buffalo Bayou Park: Prime donor: Rich Kinder, Kinder Morgan / The Kinder Foundation
Discovery Green
Bloomingdale Trail/The 606
Philadelphia Rail Park
Kelly Drive - Philadelphia
The Central Park Conservancy
The Trust for Public Land
Millennium Park, a network of corporate-branded spaces
Atlanta Belt Line
The QueensWay, NYC
--
-
The “picturesque” as a historical element of 19th-century
imperialism.
-
Landscape as a colonial tool.
-
Parks conceived as safe spaces for white women
and children in rapidly industrializing and ethnographically changing.
-
Counterpoint: Small parks pioneered by Jane
Addams and Hull House.
-
Three-point manifesto:
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