{"id":341493,"date":"2010-02-19T16:56:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-19-amusement-park-grows-amid-rail-line-ruins\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:56:41","slug":"amusement-park-grows-amid-rail-line-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341493","title":{"rendered":"Amusement park grows amid rail line ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: TreeHuggerIt’s one of Lima’s most unusual spaces: a set of structures that were
going to be the railways of an electric train. In 1986, the project was
dropped and the construction was left as-it-was.<\/p>\n

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For years, these concrete columns and pass ways ‘adorned’ Lima’s
landscape with no purpose, until this February.<\/p>\n

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Spanish group Basurama, known for projects like the ‘You
are what you drop<\/a>’ installation, thought this was an amazing place
to make an urban intervention and came up with an amusement park.<\/p>\n

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The Ghost Train park features amazing bright colors and games made
with recycled materials such as car tires, a canopy line, swings and
climbing structures. All free of charge for kids, young people, and
adults.<\/p>\n

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More of the story, plus great video and pictures, from our friends at TreeHugger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And if you love reclaimed urban blight as much as we do, you’ll get a kick out of what’s being done with emptied big box stores<\/a>. Hint: a museum to a certain canned ham product. <\/p>\n

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Sometimes an abandoned building is more like a big shopping mall for those who like to mine them for fixtures and lumber and the odd decorative element.  Amy Bauman<\/a> greens the construction industry one re-claimed I-beam at a time.<\/p>\n

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Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inspired transit: Portland gets around<\/a><\/p>\n

Seoul reengineers a freeway into a stream [VIDEO]<\/a><\/p>\n

The 10 greenest and brownest things about Vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n

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