NY Times Highlights restored urban waterways

As we are working to restore the brook of Brook Park and Brook Avenue, the NY Times has taken notice of this global movement.

A River Runs Under It

SEOUL, South Korea — For half a century, a dark tunnel of crumbling concrete encased more than three miles of a placid stream bisecting this bustling city.

Andrew C. Revkin
Image by Jean Chung for The New York Times

After its opening in 2005, hundreds of thousands of people have visited the new stream with friends and family.

The waterway had been a centerpiece of Seoul since a king of the Choson Dynasty selected the new capital 600 years ago, enticed by the graceful meandering of the stream and its 23 tributaries. But in the industrial era after the Korean War, the stream, by then a rank open sewer, was entombed by pavement and forgotten beneath a lacework of elevated expressways as the city’s population swelled toward 10 million.

Today, after a $384 million recovery project, the stream, called Cheonggyecheon, is liberated from its dank sheath and burbles between reedy banks. Picnickers cool their bare feet in its filtered water, and carp swim in its tranquil pools. ...

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