Toolkit Section:
A park built along an old railway that carried freight through a disinvested neighborhood. A trail emerging from what was once the site of a city’s Black middle class. Infrastructure reuse must reckon with the histories of inequity in and around project sites. The tools in this section guide organizations toward understanding how a site is connected to legacies, both good and bad.
*If you only able to work on one tool, we would recommend Tool 3: Create a Timeline
Town Branch Park, Inc.
In Lexington, Kentucky, a world-class park is slated to emerge from what was once a nine-acre parking lot. A diverse…
Friends of the Rail Park
Friends of the Rail Park—whose project is revitalizing three miles of unused Philadelphia rail lines—took a temporal approach to creating…
Bergen Arches Preservation Coalition
Bergen Arches is the common name for the Erie Railroad’s mile-long, under-utilized railroad trench that once served four passenger rails…
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