Deconstruction / Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul
Deconstruction / Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul
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Busquets, Joan, ed. Deconstruction / Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul
Harvard GSD 2011
Book ID: 89790
The restoration of the Cheonggyecheon River that runs through Seoul, Korea, in a mere twenty-nine months - transitioning from an outmoded highway into a multipurpose performative infrastructure piece of unprecedented size - merits recognition as a seminal project in contemporary urban design. This remarkable achievement recovers the biological and social ecology of the city and demonstrates the profound ability of design at the urban scale to provoke positive transformation effectively over large territories. The project also signifies a broader sea change in Asian attitudes toward city design, from a quantitative model concerned primarily with growth to a more qualitative program that incorporates quality of life and environmental sustainability into strategies for economic development.
72 pp. Pap.
