There is a movement in cities across the world to reclaim underutilized infrastructure and reimagine it as public space.
Explore the projectsNew Monuments for New Cities is the inaugural project of the High Line Network Joint Art Initiative, a new collaboration between industrial reuse projects in North America.
New Monuments for New Cities is a public art exhibition in which artists were asked to imagine new monuments. Their designs will travel to five cities next year, to be displayed in industrial reuse spaces, beginning in Buffalo Bayou in Houston in February, and ending on the High Line in New York in October.
In one of the largest gifts of its kind ever, the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation donated $200 million to create new parks and recreational trails in Detroit, MI and Buffalo, New York.
80,000 square feet of concrete along the Hudson River should become a multipurpose and eco-friendly public space serving as a place for the community to gather and as an educational laboratory where visitors can learn about the Hudson River Estuary.
The High Line Network is a group of infrastructure reuse projects—and the people who are helping them come to life.
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