The Abandoned Railway Line

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My intent of this paper topic will be highlighting the inspiration of how Robert Hammond and Josh David visionary idea transformed the creation of an unused, abandoned railway line to a spectacular greenery park in the sky -the New York’s High Line. Hammond and David were two guys from the neighborhood who decided that tearing down the railway line was not a good idea, while other people in the community, including property owners and the Mayor Giuliani wanted the unused railway demolish. With the help of photographer Joel Sternfeld’s photographs, which he had captured the abandoned railway line overgrown greenery of big fields of wildflowers that changed with the season, and from these photographs, they were able to convince people to recognize

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