The New York Dereliction Walk

Synopsis

Things change. The cities and towns we live in are not a passive backdrop to what we do: they carry the marks of it. The New York Dereliction Walk is a guided walk through spaces in New York that are united in one way: they represent failure, change, socially driven movements, and rebirth.

The guidebook is both a route map and a journal. It gives an overview of each place on the walk, from the High Line and the Hudson piers to the Chelsea Hotel, the Stonewall Inn, St Marks Place and Grand Central Terminal, with space to gather your own views and interpretations as you go.

Four themes run through it: dereliction, community, rebirth and change. The things we build capture the purpose and the idealism behind them, and they fail when they can no longer change. Along the way, Julian asks which parts of our own Organisations are falling into ruin, and where the communities are that might help them find renewal.

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by Julian Stodd