Linear park

in Manhattan is an aerial greenway, modeled on the Promenade plantée in Paris. A linear park is a type of park that is significantly longer than it is wide. Linear parks are strips of public land running along canals, rivers, streams, defensive walls, electrical lines, highways and shorelines. Examples of linear parks include everything from wildlife corridors to river-ways to trails, capturing the broadest sense of the word. Other examples include rail trails ("rails to trails"), which are disused railroad beds converted for recreational use by removing existing structures. Commonly, these linear parks result from the public and private sectors acting on the dense urban need for open green space. Linear parks stretch through urban areas, coming through as a solution for the lack of space and need for urban greenery. They also effectively connect different neighborhoods in dense urban areas as a result, and create places that are ideal for activities such as jogging or walking. Linear parks may also be categorized as greenways. In Australia, a linear park along the coast is known as a foreshoreway. When being designed, linear parks appear unique as they are planned around the public's opinion of how the space will affect them.

in Manhattan is an aerial greenway, modeled on the Promenade plantée in Paris. ]] A linear park is a type of park that is significantly longer than it is wide. Linear parks are strips of public land running along canals, rivers, streams, defensive walls, electrical lines, highways and shorelines. Examples of linear parks include everything from wildlife corridors to river-ways to trails, capturing the broadest sense of the word. Other examples include rail trails ("rails to trails"), which are disused railroad beds converted for recreational use by removing existing structures. Commonly, these linear parks result from the public and private sectors acting on the dense urban need for open green space. Linear parks stretch through urban areas, coming through as a solution for the lack of space and need for urban greenery. They also effectively connect different neighborhoods in dense urban areas as a result, and create places that are ideal for activities such as jogging or walking. Linear parks may also be categorized as greenways. In Australia, a linear park along the coast is known as a foreshoreway. When being designed, linear parks appear unique as they are planned around the public's opinion of how the space will affect them.

North America

, Boston, US, in 1894]] Possibly the earliest example is the Emerald Necklace, which consists of a chain of parks linked by parkways (a broad, landscaped highway) and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. The name comes from the way the planned chain appears to hang from the "neck" of the Boston peninsula. This system of linear parks was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted to connect the Boston Common and Public Garden (1837) to Franklin Park (Boston), also known as the "crown jewel" of Olmstead's work in Boston. The project began around 1878 with efforts to clean up and control the marshy area which later became the Back Bay and the Fens. In 1880, Olmsted proposed that the Muddy River be included in the park plan as the current dredged into a winding stream and was directed into the Charles River. Olmsted's vision of a linear park of walking paths along a gentle stream connecting numerous small ponds was complete by the turn of the century, but never completed the section to Boston Harbor. The subsequent development of the automobile industry and roads severely disrupted the original concept. neighborhood of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada]] In some cities, many linear parks run through residential areas. In this case, the front of the house will face the streets, while the back faces a small linear park containing a pathway, trees and grass connecting different areas together. There are examples of this in some US cities and some Canadian cities, such as Saskatoon, Canada. Houses connected with linear parks are more common in suburban and rural areas where space is much less in-demand. In the 21st century, prevalent examples of linear parks that have seen high levels of visitors are the High Line in New York City and the Bloomingdale Trail in Chicago. The High Line in New York City is a rail trail and greenway, having been built on a portion of a defunct rail line as well as constructed to have greenery all throughout. Like its Paris counterpart Promenade Plantee, the High Line has been transformed into a linear park that allows for activities such as sight-seeing and exercise, while being elevated. The High Line's annual budget is funded almost entirely by park visitors, though it is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation license agreement. Bloomingdale Trail in Chicago is the longest linear park in the Western Hemisphere, and the second-longest linear park in the world, with a length of , just under Paris' Promenade Plantee at . Bloomingdale Trial was created by converting an elevated portion of the former Bloomingdale railway to this linear park, which features trees, flowers, plants, shrubbery, grass, light posts, and benches throughout. The greenway transverses through the neighborhoods of Logan Square, Humboldt Park, and West Town.

Beltline Trail, Toronto

The Beltline Trail opened in 1989 by using the part of the Toronto Belt Line Railway Don Loop, which was last used by Canadian National Railway in the late 1960s. A few years of a public battle over the use of the former rail corridor ended in 1972 and 1988 after the City of Toronto bought most of the remaining unused sections.

List of linear parks

Europe

France

, a elevated linear park built on top of obsolete railway infrastructure in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. ]] Promenade plantée, Paris

Germany

Mauerpark in Berlin Mittellandkanal, Hannover Kattenbrook-Park, Hannover

Ireland

Dodder Park, Dublin Lansdowne Valley Park, Dublin

Portugal

Tagus Linear Park, Póvoa de Santa Iria (River Tagus)

Romania

Parcul Liniei Linear Park, Bucharest, S6 Gorgeous four-kilometre urban linear park in Bucharest, set to become one of the longest urban linear parks in Europe. The project will see a four-kilometre swathe of the city transformed into a lush urban garden. 3km out of 4 are full functioning. https://loc.wiki/t/136346821?wa=sc

Spain

Sagera Linear Park, Barcelona Parc de la Rambla de Sants, Barcelona Madrid Río, Madrid Turia Gardens (Jardín del Turia), Valencia

United Kingdom

Brampton Valley Way in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, England Eastside City Park, Birmingham, England Hogsmill River Park, London, England Mile End Park, East London, England

North America

Canada

Beltline Linear Park and West Toronto Railpath, Toronto, Ontario Grand Concourse (St. John's), Newfoundland: a walkway system with linear parks Meewasin Trail, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Parc linéaire de la rivière Saint-Charles, Québec City, Québec Parc Linéaire Le P'tit Train du Nord, Saint-Jérôme - Mont-Laurier, Quebec. Strathcona Linear Park, Vancouver, British Columbia

United States

Alewife Linear Park, Massachusetts Atlanta Beltline, Atlanta, Georgia Bloomingdale Trail (The 606), Chicago, Illinois Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina and Virginia Brickell Key Baywalk, Miami, Florida Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston, Texas Burnham Greenway, Chicago, Illinois Charles River Esplanade, Boston, Massachusetts Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, and Maryland Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, Central New Jersey Dequindre Cut, Detroit, Michigan East Boston Greenway, Boston, Massachusetts Eastern Parkway, New York City Elizabeth River Parkway, Union County, New Jersey Embarcadero, San Francisco, California Freeway Park, Seattle, Washington George Redman, East Providence-Providence, Rhode Island Grand Park, Los Angeles, California High Line, New York, New York Hollywood Central Park, Los Angeles, California Hoover-Mason Trestle, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Hudson River Park, New York, New York Illinois Prairie Path, Dupage County, Illinois Indianapolis Cultural Trail, Indianapolis, Indiana James River Park System, Richmond, Virginia Little Sugar Creek Greenway, Charlotte, North Carolina Miami Riverwalk, Miami Baywalk, and future Miami River Greenway Midtown Greenway and trails network of Minneapolis, Minnesota Mosholu Parkway, The Bronx, New York City Ocean Parkway, New York City Passaic River Parkway, Union County, New Jersey Pastor Willie James Ford, Sr. Linear Park, Deerfield Beach, Florida Pelham Parkway, The Bronx, New York City Rahway River Parkway, Union County, New Jersey Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, Massachusetts Riverfront Park (Arkansas River Trail), Little Rock, Arkansas Rotary Trail, Birmingham, Alabama Salesforce Park, San Francisco San Antonio River Walk, San Antonio, Texas Stowe Recreation Path, Stowe, Vermont Sunset Dunes, San Francisco The Loop, Tucson, Arizona The Underline, Miami-Dade County, Florida Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, Queens, New York City Walkway over the Hudson State Historic Park, Poughkeepsie and Highland, New York Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park, Northern Virginia

Mexico

Línea Verde, Aguascalientes Parque Lineal (Puerto Vallarta)

South America

Argentina

Paseo del Bajo, Buenos Aires

Asia

Iran

Seyyed morteza linear park, kashmar

Israel

Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv

Japan

Odori Park, Sapporo

Philippines

Plaza Moriones, Manila Camaligan River Park, Camaligan, Camarines Sur Iloilo River Esplanade, Iloilo City

Taiwan

Calligraphy Greenway, Taichung

Thailand

Chong Nonsi Canal Park, Bangkok , crossing the Chao Phraya River]] Chao Phraya Sky Park, Bangkok

South Korea

Seoullo 7017, Seoul Gyeongchun Line Forest Park Gyeongui Line Forest Park

United Arab Emirates

Al zorah linear park, Ajman

Australia

Stirling Linear Park, near Adelaide Sturt River Linear Park, near Adelaide The Goods Line, Sydney Torrens Linear Park, Adelaide

See also

Boardwalk Footpath Foreshoreway Greenway (landscape) Promenade Trail Urban park Wildlife corridor

Notes

References

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