He also knew that the precedents set for the High Line should be recognized in other cities around the world. After all, the concept was to take antiquated infrastructure – in NYC’s case an ...

NYC's High Line park is credited not only with transforming the neighborhood around it, but changing the way the world thinks about parks in general. Now, the walkable area just got a little bigger.

Ricardo Scofidio, an architect who transformed an abandoned railway into New York City's popular High Line park and was among the first in his profession to win a MacArthur Foundation “genius ...