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The High Line de Victoria Tentler-Krylov

The High Line

Autor Victoria Tentler-Krylov
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mai 2023 – vârsta până la 8 ani
GLOBAL APPEAL: With over 8 million visitors annually, the award-winning High Line is known and admired worldwide as a testament to innovation, art, and nature. It has motivated cities around the world to repurpose urban relics and build beautiful community parks.UNIQUE NONFICTION: Like Jen Thermes¿s Manhattan, The High Line is a fascinating, beautifully illustrated history of both a place and its people, those who shaped it and those whose lives have been transformed by it.GIFTY PACKAGE: Tentler-Krylov¿s exquisite, lush watercolors give the book a sophisticated, artful feel, perfect for museums and gift stores.INFORMATIVE BACK MATTER: Includes a timeline of the High Line and a nuanced author¿s note that discusses the park¿s complicated history of gentrification, as well as how the park¿s organizers today strive to learn from the mistakes of the past by creating a more inclusive High Line that serves its local communities.
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ISBN-13: 9781419756702
ISBN-10: 1419756702
Pagini: 40
Ilustrații: Full-color illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 257 x 259 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Abrams Books For Young Readers

Descriere

An illustrated history of New York City’s internationally famous High Line, one of the world’s most innovative and inspiring public parksImagine a very different New York City―one whose streets are filled with horses and buggies and people on foot. Now imagine the block-long freight trains that shared the same roads delivering goods to the westside factories. How did New York solve the problem of trains barreling through busy city streets? They built a train track above all the hustle and bustle, and the High Line was born. Once trains were no longer needed to transport goods, the High Line sat abandoned, ready for demolition. But the City had other ideas. The High Line opened as a 1.45-mile-long park in 2009. It quickly became an iconic, must-see attraction and a marvel of landscape architecture, admired worldwide for its history, beauty, and creative union of urban design with greenspace. As the High Line became a global inspiration, longtime residents of the neighborhood surrounding it also advocated to keep the park feeling like home. Packed with facts and gorgeously illustrated, The High Line: A Park to Look Up To is the story of an innovative idea and the people who made it possible―from the ingenuity of those who first built it for the needs of industry, to those who reimagined it as a community space for art, recreation, and the preservation of nature.

Notă biografică

Victoria Tentler-Krylov is a trained and practicing architect, as well as a children¿s and editorial illustrator, who grew up in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and studied architecture and urban design at Cooper Union and Columbia University. Her inspiration is fueled by urban landscapes but also by fantasy, possibility, and imagination. Her other passion is experimenting with digital and traditional art tools, and in particular, pushing the boundaries of watercolor digitally. Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid was her author-illustrated debut, and her illustrated picture books include We Are a Garden, The Cyclops of Central Park, Just Read!, and Peter Pan: A Modern Retelling. She lives with her family just outside Boston, Massachusetts.