A Park, Over A Freeway, Inward Seattle. That's A Mighty Nice Thing, Also It's The Descendant Of Fundamental Mutual Inward New York
equally good equally that all resulted from people seeing the ordinary freeways... equally good equally thinking, hey, why not embrace that upwards with something overnice to hold off at, equally good equally a overnice mutual to select trees back into the city?
It worked inward New York City on the East River Drive, equally good equally inward Boston over the Big Dig, equally good equally inward Chicago with the Millennium park
inward 1966 Lawrence Halprin wrote the majority Freeways, his followup to Cities. He knew something virtually cities, every fighting he grew upwards inward Brooklyn, equally good equally was a sandlot baseball game game star every fighting a kid
One of his academy classmates was Philip Johnson (oh, yeah, I dig architecture too) equally good equally he went equally good equally visited Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio inward Wisconsin afterwards graduating. Well, FLW was taught landscape architecture past times the Olmstead boys, their dad was the genius who seat out Central Park inward New York. His sons did neat go too, but, inward all probability testament fit out known virtually for educational action FLW, who went on to practise beautiful things, equally good equally getting back to my story, inspired Halprin.
After university, he was a Lt on a destroyer, the USS Morris, during WW2, equally good equally recuperated from a kamikaze prepare on inward San Fran, which he adopted every fighting his home.
He is best known for the psyche landscaping programme for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair including the innovative elevated monorail from downtown to the park, equally good equally the landscape programme for the West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II, Ira's Fountain inward Portland, equally good equally Freeway Park inward Seattle... which reclaimed the interstate v right-of-way every fighting a park.
https://tclf.org/lawrence-halprin-designer-one-most-important-urban-spaces-renaissance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Halprin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_Park
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lulek/22338891201/
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Freeway_Park.html

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