CUE - Urban Drainage: Cheonggyecheon River Restoration Project CS Flashcards
Where is the Cheonggyecheon river?
Seoul, South Korea
What is the population of seoul?
Over 10 million people
What is the population density of Seoul?
Over 17,000 per km^2
What happened to the Cheonggyecheon stream in 1918?
The Japanese colonial administration started dredging it
Why did the Japanese colonial administration begin dredging the Cheonggyecheon stream?
They was it as a sanitation and flood risk
What stopped the dredging work being done on the Cheonggyecheon stream?
WW2 and Korean war
Who established squatter settlements along the Cheonggyecheon stream banks?
Refugees and returning populations after the Korean war
What covered the banks of Cheonggyecheon from 1958-1961?
Squatter settlements
What did squatter settlements along Cheonggyecheon cause?
Serious pollution
Give evidence to show Cheonggyecheon was the busiest place in Seoul in 2003.
Daily average of 180,000 cars passing through, 60,000 businesses and 100,000 shopkeepers
What did the Cheonggyecheon restoration project transform the river into?
A 5.8km ecologically sensitive green pedestrian corridor
How long did the Cheonggyecheon river restoration project take?
2 years
How much did the Cheonggyecheon river restoration project cost?
$281 million
Give 3 reasons for the Cheonggyecheon river restoration project.
Seoul’s changing landscape
Safety risks
Pollution
How is Seoul’s landscape changing?
It is changing from an urban, development orientated landscape to one that values the quality of life of its people and importance of its functioning ecosystems
