ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「How did the world’s largest garbage dump evolve into a green oasis? A little less than 2 decades ago, the last steaming load of garbage arrived at Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was on the site at the time, standing among garbage hills 200 feet tall, alongside Staten Island’s borough president, Guy Molinari, and Gov. George Pataki — 3 Republicans who had worked together to close the dump that Molinari’s father first protested when it opened in 1948. The voters of Staten Island would later rally around Michael Bloomberg, who promised to trade their dump for a park. Today, Fresh Kills has been rebranded as Freshkills, and the park that is now at the site of the old dump is poised to accept visitors: The North Park will open in spring 2021, and the rest by 2036. As conceived by James Corner Field Operations, the landscape architects responsible for the High Line, the idea was not just to build a park but to reimagine the idea of park. If Frederick Law Olmsted’s Central Park was the work of a static, pastoral painter, then Corner and his team were less artists than restoration biologists, jump-starting a framework and leaving the ecology of the site itself to finish things up. In short? Bury the trash, plant some grass and do nothing for 20 years. “You start with nothing, and you grow,” Corner said. “You take a very sterile or inert foundation and move something in. It’s like lichen. They quickly grow and die, grow and die, creating a rich soil that something else can grow onto. And that’s how ecosystems grow.” Tap the link in our bio to read more from Robert Sullivan on how 150 million tons of garbage was transformed into this tranquil park. Photos by @j_doskow」8月16日 22時10分