Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul
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By Joan Busquets (Editor), Mohsen Mostafavi (Contribution by), Eve Blau (Contribution by), Chris Reed (Contribution by), Marion Weiss (Contribution by), Ian Klein (Contribution by)
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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 lar...


