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In downtown Seoul, the Cheongyecheon stream was vaulted and paved over in the 1970s. People more or less entirely forgot it existed. In the early 2000s a progra
by bane 5y ago
In downtown Seoul, the Cheongyecheon stream was vaulted and paved over in the 1970s. People more or less entirely forgot it existed. In the early 2000s a program was put in place to tear up the roadway that sat on top of the stream and turn it into an urban park. The program was unpopular at the beginning because it eliminated valuable roads and cost almost a billion dollars to fix.
Today it's enormously popular, has won numerous global awards for urban redevelopment, and offers a wonderful quiet respite from the grind of the city.
Bonus, they found numerous ancient artifacts during the reclamation and integrated many of them into the system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggyecheon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggyecheon
- scythe 5y agoBut can LA do it with the 710?
- petre 5y agoI even saw a K-drama which had some key scenes shot on this river. Ji Chang-wook throws his wedding ring into this river and Kim Ji-won recovers it afterwards. https://youtu.be/n8-VZcycUCA https://youtu.be/n8-VZcycUCA
- spockz 5y agoA similar thing has been done in Utrecht. The city’s moat was paved over ages ago in favour of roads. Now they reopened it for water again: https://www.ontdek-utrecht.nl/de-singel-is-rond/ https://www.ontdek-utrecht.nl/de-singel-is-rond/
- aikinai 5y agoIt’s only a small river, but Tokyo also buried the Shibuya river years ago and most residents forgot about it. They recently uncovered it and are still working around the development around it. Google’s new (from 2019) Tokyo office is beside the river and named Shibuya Stream after the river. It still smells pretty bad though :/
- pvaldes 5y ago"The stream helps to cool down the temperature on the nearby areas by 3.6 °C on average versus other parts of Seoul" Economy greatly improved, energy requirements decreased, people more happy and healthy and a touristic attraction and nicer city. The project is paying for itself, it seems...