Elevated Infrastructure and Public Space: Reclaiming the Ground Below

Elevation is often framed as progress, lifting movement above the friction of the city and smoothing circulation into uninterrupted flow. Every act of lifting produces a secondary condition in its wake. Beneath flyovers , metro lines , and railway viaducts , a second ground emerges as shaded, ambiguous, and rarely planned with the same intent as what moves above. These spaces are not incidental le