Are High Line Copycats the Next 'Bilbao Effect'?

Since the opening of New York’s High Line park just under two years ago, we’ve been privy to mountains of other cities declaring that they soon would begin thinking about constructing their own version of project, proudly saying that “This will be [insert city name here]’s High Line!” We’re apparently not the only ones who have seen this phenomenon, as Slate’s resident architecture critic, Witold Rybczynski, recently moonlighted over on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, with his piece, “Bringing