{"513851":{"#nid":"513851","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech students take first steps to make Charleston Lowcountry Lowline a reality","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESome have called this project Charleston, South Carolina\u2019s 21st\u0026nbsp;century version of Central Park, the famed New York City green space. Others have termed it a \u201ckeystone\u201d to rejuvenating a blighted area of the city and to reuniting neighborhoods separated decades ago by the construction of Interstate 26. Supporters say it will drive the economic future of the entire city.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s called the Charleston Lowcountry Lowline, a project to turn an abandoned railroad line in the heart of the Charleston peninsula into a 6.5-mile linear park \u2014\u0026nbsp;and a group of Georgia Tech students are helping take the first steps to making the dream a reality.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Lowline\u2019s proponents imagine it as Charleston\u2019s version of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.thehighline.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHigh Line in New York City\u003C\/a\u003E, where a park was built on an abandoned elevated rail line, or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/beltline.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAtlanta\u2019s Beltline\u003C\/a\u003E, which has transformed old rail tracks into a thriving park-cum-transportation-corridor encircling the city center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;Read the full story on the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/class-project-could-spark-charleston%E2%80%99s-future\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech CEE site.\u003C\/a\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2016-03-16 08:26:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:01","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"japanese exchange","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/class-project-could-spark-charleston%E2%80%99s-future","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62294":{"id":"62294","type":"image","title":"charleston","body":null,"created":"1449176355","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:15","changed":"1475894409","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:09","alt":"charleston","file":{"fid":"191441","name":"charlestonphoto.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/charlestonphoto_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/charlestonphoto_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20668,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/charlestonphoto_0.jpg?itok=PWcyv5rd"}}},"media_ids":["62294"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}