Koreascape<\/a><\/em> on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This month, along with Yoon Il Gyu of the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Regeneration Planning Division, we get up above Seoul Station and onto quite possibly\u00a0the city’s most anticipated urban development\u00a0of the decade: Seoullo 7017. Previously known as the Seoul Skygarden, the project has\u00a0permanently shut down a freeway overpass and turned it into a walkway park featuring not just a variety of Korea’s plants and trees, but snack shops, foot baths, trampolines, and more besides. Given its repurposing of elevated space for cars as elevated space for people, some have called it Seoul’s own version of New York’s High Line,\u00a0but the two projects have their\u00a0differences as well. We talk about them as we walk\u00a0Seoullo 7017,\u00a0which opens to the public on May 20th, and also about\u00a0the challenges of building such a space, the hopes for its future as it settles into a sometimes neglected part of Seoul’s urban landscape, and how it could show freeway-filled Western cities the way forward.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Seoullo-7017-1024x538.png\")
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