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a ribbon of wild stitched through concrete, where the city briefly forgets itself
means A linear corridor of green space — often a planted path, trail, or strip of protected land — that links parks, neighborhoods, or countryside and lets people and wildlife move along it.
from A transparent English compound of "green" (the color, long tied to growing plants and grass, from Old English grēne, a cousin of "grow") and "way" (a path or route, from Old English weg). "Way" has named routes since the earliest English — think "highway" and "byway" — so a "greenway" reads almost literally as "the green road." The term as a planning concept for protected, vegetated corridors is a 20th-century usage that gained traction with the rise of conservation and trail movements, though the two plain words behind it are about as old as English itself.
- old bones
- Many follow abandoned rail lines and dead canals
- wildlife corridor
- Animals use them to cross fragmented habitats
- value bump
- Nearby property prices rise measurably
- car-free creed
- Designed to keep engines out, lungs in
- global spread
- Linked greenways span entire countries and continents
high line — elevated park on abandoned railway in manhattan, 1.45 miles long, opened 2009
chicago lakefront trail — 18-mile waterfront path along lake michigan connecting 30+ neighborhoods
amsterdam bike paths — 500 kilometers of cycling greenways throughout city, 63% of commutes by bike