Madrid Rio

Friends of mine have just got back from Madrid and were raving about the new Madrid Rio park. More than six miles long, it transforms a formerly neglected area in the middle of Spain’s capital. Its creation, in four years, atop a complex network of tunnels dug to bury an intrusive highway, also rejuvenates a long-lost stretch of the Manzanares River, and in so doing knits together neighborhoods that the highway had cut off from the city center.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/arts/design/in-madrid-even-maybe-...