The Mayor of Paris announced recently that the city is closing an expressway along the River Seine in a project that could have a major impact on public space in the city. Time magazine describes the current one-day-a-week closure and how this may spread to 365 days per year: On a recent Sunday in Paris, [...]
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Andrew Revkin of the New York Times provides a great video and backstory of the “daylighted” stream in Seoul, North Korea involving the tearing down of a highway and construction of the waterway and linear park.
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We’re back with some more news on freeway teardowns, this time highlighting efforts in New Orleans and Louisville, KY. This last week an article appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune about that city considering tearing down a segment of the elavated freeway I-10. The idea is to replace the segment with what was originally on [...]
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Next American City’s Daily Report writes about the Congress for the New Urbanism’s push for tearing down freeways in several cities. Urban designers took the freeway, which was perfectly suitable as a connector between cities, and tossed it into the city itself……… It sliced through cities, severing their once-convenient grid systems. It blocked access to [...]
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What does $170,000 in public money, $26,000 in donated funds, 44,000 volunteer hours and a space under a freeway get you between two of Seattle’s most densely populated neighborhoods? A mountain bike park, what else? (Short article in the Seattle Times.) “The space under the freeway and between Seattle’s Eastlake and Capitol Hill neighborhoods was [...]
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