How a City Demolished a Freeway to Restore an Ancient River System into an Urban Green Space

Watch Our Latest Video: "How The Andes Lost Cloud Forests Are Being Brought Back Using A Rare Tree"    • Restoring Peru's High-Altitude Cloud Fores...   -~- Seoul is the capital and largest city in South Korea. It's considered a megacity because it has a population of over ten million people. Seoul also has the third largest metropolitan population among Asian cities, and is the fifth largest in the world, with 26 million people. Seoul has been continuously settled for over 2,000 years, due to the fact The Capital Area occupies a plain in the Han River valley. It contains some of the most fertile land on the Korean peninsula, although relatively little of it is used for agriculture today. The framework for modern-day Seoul began to emerge as the construction of electrical facilities, railroads, streetcar tracks, parks, waterworks systems, schools, and hospitals commenced at the end of the 19th century with the opening of the port. By the 1950s the population was around 1 million people which grew 10-fold by the end of the century During the 1960s and 70s Seoul experienced serious urban issues due to extensive population inflow, such as traffic congestion, environmental pollution, formation of illegal settlement areas, and housing shortages. However in just 50 years, Seoul has managed to turn this around by resolving various urban problems to grow and advance into a smart city where 10 million people live comfortably today and it is considered one of the greenest megacities in the world with 27.80% public parks and gardens. This can be considered major accomplishment for any city especially for Seoul which ranks number 7 in most densely populated cities in the world. In comparison Tokyo only has 7.5% green spaces, despite having less than half the population density of Seoul City. In this video we are going to show how Seoul city has transformed a traffic congested multi lane highway by restoring 5.84 km riverside into a walkable urban green space. Making the Chengygheon river restoration on of the most successful urban green mega projects in the world. _________________________ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE with Bell notification ON @LeafofLifeWorld _________________________ 🌳 More Greening the City Projects:    • Greening the City Projects   _________________________ 💚 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Help us support more regenerative projects: https://www.leafoflife.news _________________________ This video is for education and research purposes If you are the owner of any of the images please contact us an we can credit or remove the image, THANK YOU FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE The Copyright Laws of the United States recognizes a “fair use” of copyrighted content. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 106 AND 106A, THE FAIR USE OF A COPYRIGHTED WORK, INCLUDING SUCH USE BY REPRODUCTION IN COPIES OR PHONORECORDS OR BY ANY OTHER MEANS SPECIFIED BY THAT SECTION, FOR PURPOSES SUCH AS CRITICISM, COMMENT, NEWS REPORTING, TEACHING (INCLUDING MULTIPLE COPIES FOR CLASSROOM USE), SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH, IS NOT AN INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT.” THIS VIDEO AND OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL IN GENERAL MAY CONTAIN CERTAIN COPYRIGHTED WORKS THAT WERE NOT SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED TO BE USED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S), BUT WHICH WE BELIEVE IN GOOD FAITH ARE PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW AND THE FAIR USE DOCTRINE FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE REASONS NOTED ABOVE. IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC CONCERNS ABOUT THIS VIDEO OR OUR POSITION ON THE FAIR USE DEFENSE, PLEASE CONTACT US IN THE COMMENTS OR SEND AN EMAIL SO WE CAN DISCUSS AMICABLY. THANK YOU. #greencity #megacity #walkablecity