The Freeway Park

The highway park is an important historical landscape, a functional space structure and a masterpiece of new land use in the American city. It is reminiscent of the time after the war, and it shows that a wonderful design was built on the highway of the time. The spectacular features of the park make this area a recreational facility. It is one of the best examples of architectural freedom, represented by repetitive elements and multiple height levels, forming a special block with functional areas and building complexes, and rich green plants.

When it first opened in 1976, the Seattle Highway Park became the first park in the US to be built on the highway - a "capped park". The highway park of over 40 years ago continues to provide services beyond its design to Seattle, connecting the city center with the first mountainous area. Please come to a more natural landscape. The park celebrates the city's infrastructure with large concrete structures, the landscape of buildings and cars, and the voice of the city. However, the properties of concrete, plants, and water not only evoke the mountains, forests, and natural elements of the city, but also protect neighboring residents and visitors of neighboring convention centers from air pollution and rain water on greasy roads I will move it. In addition, the park promotes Seattle's major regional investment, increased tourists, and improved quality of life.

The expressway park is not alone. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Clyde Warren Park in Dallas, City Arch River in St. Louis is a recent park connecting the communities across the country. Inspired by these models, other cities seek new and aggressive plans to utilize parks to cope with contemporary challenges such as population growth, aging infrastructure, changes in climatic conditions It is. In addition to providing outdoor recreation opportunities, today's urban parks offer a wide range of ecological services, from reducing storms and surface water management to reducing carbon footprint, making the city safer, cleaner and cooler .

Again, Highway Park once again highlights its own cooperative financing approach, emphasizing how to use public support to utilize public funds. The park is constructed with a wide range of funds, including countermeasures for the entire county's public debt and funds from federal, state, county, municipal, civilian. This will not happen without the strong public leadership of Seattle Parks and Entertainment and partnership with the Highway Parks Association. I have proof of concept. Congressmen can get inspiration from Frederick Law Olmsted's 19th century Boston Park system design, which consists of nine consecutive parks called Jade Necklace. Time test