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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our second movie from New York, designer Stephen Burks takes us to the High Line and explains how the elevated park is helping to transform the surrounding areas of the city.

Designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations along with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and garden designer Piet Oudolf, the High Line park runs through New York's Chelsea neighbourhood along the lower west side of Manhattan on 1.5 miles of repurposed elevated railway.

"For decades [the High Line] was an overgrown railroad track, left over from an era when elevated trains roared through Manhattan," says Burks. "Today it's a multi-million dollar park that's welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors a day."

The park was completed in 2009 and Burks believes the project has been the catalyst for the regeneration of the Chelsea area and the Meatpacking District next to it.