-Edge (paper 2): Edges are the boundaries between two phases, linear breaks in continuity. For instance shores, railroad cuts, edges of development and walls. There are different types of edges such as (Westside highway)
-Paths (paper 1): paths are the channels which the observer moves. They can be streets, walkways, transit lines, canals and railroads. Other than the definition of paths, he introduced some different features of the paths such as
Websites about the Westside highway:
https://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON020.htm
https://michaelminn.net/newyork/urban-renewal/60th-street-railyard/miller-highway/index.html#:~:text=The%20West%20Side%20Highway%20was,island%20without%20obstructing%20auto%20traffic.
-Discuss the construction and disstruction of the westside highway
-Professor notes:
In thinking about the fourth paper, you want to figure out what the ‘story’ of that place is. The fact that the elevated highway was eventually demolished gives you two ‘hinges’ in an argument: You have the BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER the highway. Add to that the area’s earlier military history, the Native inhabitants prior to that, and the more recent attempts to refashion it for recreational purposes, and you have a pretty good (e.g. complex) storyline for paper four. Something along the lines of Native use, settler military use, decommissioning, initial repurposing, construction of the elevated highway, the period during which it was cordoned off from the rest of the city by the elevated, its eventual destruction, opening it back up, and then more recent attempts to repurpose it again.
Given the depth of the NYT coverage, you should be able to get that all from there. For the fourth paper, some of the writing will be bringing over what you wrote in papers 2 and 3, but you will need additional information-new from primary sources to get at the issues raised in the last paragraph. For those, you want to do the same analysis that you did for papers two and three, but you don’t need to write that analysis as part of the paper. Only include the relevant information you get from those sources.