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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

It’s not an urban sci-fi fantasy: Someone is actually building a leafy underground park below Delancey Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side [bloomberg.com]. The Lowline is a plan to turn an abandoned trolley terminal there into a public green space, using special technology that pipes in sunlight beneath the street’s surface. The real deal probably won’t be ready until 2020, but this week the creators opened the Lowline Lab, a proof of concept and an experiment for seeing the ideas and tech in action. We got an early look inside.

New York's High Line [thehighline.org] has been an excellent addition to the city's greenspaces, and has really added an extra dimension to urban living. The Lowline could do the same underground. Is transforming derelict industrial structures a better alternative to urban renewal than straightforward redevelopment?

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