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For city dwellers who cannot get out to the countryside, one solution is to bring the countryside into the city. In the first-century AD, the Roman poet Martial coined the phrase
rus in urbe, in envious admiration of his rich friend Sparsus’s city villa, secluded and free from the constant roar of urban life. As city populations have grown, so has the need for ‘countryside in the city’ and its benefits. Different eras have offered similar solutions. In his pamphlet Fumifugium (1661), John Evelyn proposed making hedged plantations of ‘fragrant Shrubs, Trees, and Flowers’, which would give ‘Health, Profit, and Beauty’ to counteract the air pollution in London. By the late 18
Maire Rose Connor Camden To Be Transformed With A Floating Green Walkway
Camden is one step closer to getting its own park in the sky. The Camden Highline, which would transform a three-quarter-mile stretch of abandoned railway viaducts into a verdant walkway, now has a designer.
Following a two-stage international competition, Camden Highline the grassroots charity working to make the floating park a reality has chosen James Corner Field Operations to spearhead it. This is the design practice that New York City s own High Line to fruition, transforming a stretch of the New York Central Railroad into one of Manhattan s most popular visitor attractions. If you haven t seen it before, here s a quick glimpse:
In a caption and the text of an article we misdescribed James Corner as an architect. He has been appointed as lead landscape architect for the Camden Highline structure (âManhattan makeover for London with floating green walkway planâ, 21 February, page 23).
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