{"id":350567,"date":"2010-02-22T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-19-inspired-ethonomics-seoul-reengineers-a-freeway-into-a-stream-vi\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:00:17","slug":"seoul-reengineers-a-freeway-into-a-stream-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/350567","title":{"rendered":"Seoul reengineers a freeway into a stream [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Fast Company <\/p>\n<p>Photo: Fast Company<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Most metropolis&#8217; are so busy building the future that they don&#8217;t have <br \/>time to re-think the past. Not so with Seoul, South Korea. In 2003, the <br \/>city demolished a downtown freeway to restore an ancient stream that <br \/>once flowed beneath the thoroughfare. More than 75 percent of the scrap <br \/>material from the demolition was re-used to reconstruct and rehabilitate<br \/> the stream banks and create a commercial corridor. In this episode of e2,<br \/> we&#8217;ll see how the Cheonggyecheon is now a thriving tourist destination,<br \/> proving that going backward can sometimes lead to an even bigger step <br \/>forward.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1550925\/inspired-ethonomics-seoul-reengineers-a-freeway-into-a-stream\">story and video<\/a> comes to us from our friends over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\">Fast Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To read more from Fast Company: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/tag\/new-urbanism\" >Sustainable<br \/> Urban Development<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/tag\/inspired-ethonomics\" title=\"Inspired brEthonomics\" >Inspired Ethonomics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-23-inspired-ethonomics-portland-a-global-model-of-transit-oriented\/\">Inspired transit: Portland gets around<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-19-amusement-park-grows-amid-rail-line-ruins\/\">Amusement park grows amid rail line ruins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-11-the-10-greenest-and-brownest-things-about-vancouver-olympics\/\">The 10 greenest and brownest things about Vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=53e4e1ac73558bcc523e8d8014d0f738&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=53e4e1ac73558bcc523e8d8014d0f738&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Fast Company Photo: Fast Company Most metropolis&#8217; are so busy building the future that they don&#8217;t have time to re-think the past. Not so with Seoul, South Korea. In 2003, the city demolished a downtown freeway to restore an ancient stream that once flowed beneath the thoroughfare. More than 75 percent of the scrap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}