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Written by Chris 👾 on 2025-01-17 at 08:25

Taking back the cities is possible: Seoul transformed a highway into a stream and a park-like pedestrian-only public space.

"The restored waterway has been a triumph. It doesn’t just provide a peaceful refuge from the city’s busy streets, it serves as a cultural corridor with year-round festivals and performances, while helping cool the surrounding neighbourhoods, fighting air pollution and managing increasingly intense monsoon floods."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/seoul-cheonggyecheon-motorway-turned-into-a-stream

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/25/story-cities-reclaimed-stream-heart-seoul-cheonggyecheon

[#]goodnews #urbanism #solarpunk #ClimateCrisis #seoul #southkorea #verkehrswende

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Written by Al on 2025-01-17 at 11:35

@chris

🙏 a worthy article.

I sure hope there are #bike lanes and #bikeParking racks outside the stores along this area.

"Plenty of regrets have followed the 20th-century rush to build infrastructure for cars, and some of the monstrosities that have resulted. Planners on every continent now look hard at the ways in which people can be put back at the centre of our cities."

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Written by Geri ❤️ on 2025-01-17 at 16:25

@chris See also Valencia

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Written by Kyle Carpenter on 2025-01-18 at 14:34

@chris

Having been there, I could not agree more. Cheonggyecheon is everything right with reclaiming space for nature and people in city.

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