Seattle's Freeway Park, Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway, and Dallas's Klyde Warren Park. Although all three highway deck parks are known outside their home cities for their audacious design and engineering, it's the third, by OJB, that arguably has set off a wave of similar projects in the past several years. Cities and developers have begun to eye deck parks as a way to jump-start ghostly downtowns and to knit communities back together after in-terstates sliced through them in the 1960s and 1970s. An increased focus on reconnecting neighborhoods in debates around the infrastructure bill brought highway deck parks onto the national stage.
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