ABSTRACT
Building upon the plentiful work around travelling and mobility, this chapter discusses that the High Line that travels is best understood as a 'travelling urban imaginary'. Looking at the High Line as a travelling urban imaginary puts the focus on how an accretive narrative incorporates a particular site's history, redevelopment process, urban context and global aspirations of urban experience. New York City's High Line is 'one of the world's best-known urban-renewal projects'. A high-design linear park built atop a 1.5-mile elevated former railway in the Lower West Side of Manhattan, its first phase opened in 2009, second in 2011 and final phase in late 2014. Understanding mobilized revitalization practices and ideas has become an important part of contemporary urban research in the era of hyper-globalization. The High Line project eventually had to confirm to a neoliberal political economy and justify itself as a property development and tax revenue generation tool, not just a public amenity.
