The Magdalena River is "the one? open river of many that ran through the valley of Mexico. If the Magdalena River was saved from being turned into piped drainage was through the foolishness of the "apostle of the tree", Miguel Angel de Quevedo, who stipulated that it should not be covered, at least in the section that runs the nurseries of Coyoacan. And that is, uncovered from the bridge in Pensacola until his encounter with the Churubusco River tubing, about a mile.
The river and its banks are the most neglected despite going through a very wooded and pleasant. The river is a mystery to me, because in winter, during the dry-sometimes plentiful and summer run-in waters, "if only water flows. The smell clearly denotes that its tributaries are numerous drains, which is pitiful. Particularly nasty is the riverbank near the Nursery. It is no man's land, a plot of land trellis, a wasteland that invites them away, when he could be a nice walker, a small linear park (but runs the peligrísimo of local trade become illegal because it is right next to the the metro and nurseries before, today human law).
thought that, and I did not dare to write about it until I found an article in the supplement to the public Reform Saturday and that is The New York Times .
text is very interesting and I think that could be emulated not so hard. Even thought this river Magdalena, now piped across Chimalistac neighborhood, which still preserves its historic bridges, it would be a bailout issue. Think ( Ossa, as in San Antonio, Goei ).
watery paradise freed by removing the concrete
Andrew C. Revkin. Jean Chung contributed reporting
(July 25, 2009) .- SEOUL, South Korea - For half a century, a dark tunnel in the process of crumbling concrete covered about 5 miles of a placid stream that flows through the bustling capital ROK.
The station had been a main attraction of Seoul from a king of the Choson Dynasty selected the new capital, 600 years ago, attracted by the graceful meandering stream and its 23 tributaries. However, in the industrial era after the Korean War, the stream, which then was a fetid open sewer and was buried under the pavement and forgotten under a maze of elevated road distributors to grow the city to a population of 10 million.
Today, after a restoration project 384 million dollars, the stream, called Cheong-gye-cheon, stop listening su murmullo entre riberas llenas de juncos, liberado de su fría y húmeda cubierta.
La restauración en Seúl es parte de un esfuerzo ambientalista en expansión realizado en ciudades de todo el mundo para que ríos y arroyos vean "la luz del día", al eliminar el pavimento que fue construido hace décadas para reforzar la actividad comercial y servir al tránsito de automóviles.
Ciudades desde Singapur hasta San Antonio, Texas, han resucitado ríos y convertido drenajes pluviales en arroyos. En Los Ángeles, grupos de residentes y algunos funcionarios de elección popular ven con nuevos ojos a los riachuelos bordeados in particular, to consider items to exploit rather than inconvenience, inspired in part by the example of Seoul.
By building corridors around exposed water, cities hope to attract educated and affluent workers and residents who value the natural environment in an urban environment.
Environmentalists point to other benefits. Open water flows handle the excess rainfall drains better than the buried, an important consideration while global warming causes more intense downpours. The streams also tend to cool overheated areas the asphalt in the sun and foster foliage that attracts wildlife and pedestrians.
However, four years after the stream was exposed, municipal officials say, the environmental benefits can now be quantified. The data show that the ecosystem along the Cheong-gye-cheon has been greatly enriched. The number of species of fish has grown from 4 to 25, from 6 to 36 birds and insects from 15 to 192.
efforts to restore urban waterways, however, are filled with challenges, how to convince local business owners who are married to urban landscapes existentes que se pueden obtener beneficios económicos de una renovación ecológica.
Sin embargo, hoy en día, entre los 90 mil visitantes diarios a las riberas del Cheong-gye-cheon figuran los comerciantes de algunas de las tiendas cercanas que se contaron entre los principales oponentes al proyecto en un principio. En una tarde reciente, entre las personas que disfrutaban de un día de campo a lo largo de la vía fluvial se encontraba Yeon Yeong-san, de 63 años, quien maneja una tienda de ropa deportiva con su esposa Lee Geum-hwa, de 56 años, en el cercano Mercado Pyeong-hwa.
Yeon dijo que su familia se mudó al centro de Seúl a fines de los 40 y que tiene cuatro décadas de manejar el negocio. Contó que ahora, estacionarse era más difícil para sus clientes. Sin embargo, dijo: "ya que hay menos tráfico, tenemos mejor aire y naturaleza".
Él y su esposa caminan todos los días a lo largo del arroyo, añadió."Nunca pensamos en hacer ejercicio aquí cuando el arroyo era subterráneo", señaló.
The river and its banks are the most neglected despite going through a very wooded and pleasant. The river is a mystery to me, because in winter, during the dry-sometimes plentiful and summer run-in waters, "if only water flows. The smell clearly denotes that its tributaries are numerous drains, which is pitiful. Particularly nasty is the riverbank near the Nursery. It is no man's land, a plot of land trellis, a wasteland that invites them away, when he could be a nice walker, a small linear park (but runs the peligrísimo of local trade become illegal because it is right next to the the metro and nurseries before, today human law).
thought that, and I did not dare to write about it until I found an article in the supplement to the public Reform Saturday and that is The New York Times .
text is very interesting and I think that could be emulated not so hard. Even thought this river Magdalena, now piped across Chimalistac neighborhood, which still preserves its historic bridges, it would be a bailout issue. Think ( Ossa, as in San Antonio, Goei ).
watery paradise freed by removing the concrete
Andrew C. Revkin. Jean Chung contributed reporting
(July 25, 2009) .- SEOUL, South Korea - For half a century, a dark tunnel in the process of crumbling concrete covered about 5 miles of a placid stream that flows through the bustling capital ROK.
The station had been a main attraction of Seoul from a king of the Choson Dynasty selected the new capital, 600 years ago, attracted by the graceful meandering stream and its 23 tributaries. However, in the industrial era after the Korean War, the stream, which then was a fetid open sewer and was buried under the pavement and forgotten under a maze of elevated road distributors to grow the city to a population of 10 million.
Today, after a restoration project 384 million dollars, the stream, called Cheong-gye-cheon, stop listening su murmullo entre riberas llenas de juncos, liberado de su fría y húmeda cubierta.
La restauración en Seúl es parte de un esfuerzo ambientalista en expansión realizado en ciudades de todo el mundo para que ríos y arroyos vean "la luz del día", al eliminar el pavimento que fue construido hace décadas para reforzar la actividad comercial y servir al tránsito de automóviles.
Ciudades desde Singapur hasta San Antonio, Texas, han resucitado ríos y convertido drenajes pluviales en arroyos. En Los Ángeles, grupos de residentes y algunos funcionarios de elección popular ven con nuevos ojos a los riachuelos bordeados in particular, to consider items to exploit rather than inconvenience, inspired in part by the example of Seoul.
By building corridors around exposed water, cities hope to attract educated and affluent workers and residents who value the natural environment in an urban environment.
Environmentalists point to other benefits. Open water flows handle the excess rainfall drains better than the buried, an important consideration while global warming causes more intense downpours. The streams also tend to cool overheated areas the asphalt in the sun and foster foliage that attracts wildlife and pedestrians.
However, four years after the stream was exposed, municipal officials say, the environmental benefits can now be quantified. The data show that the ecosystem along the Cheong-gye-cheon has been greatly enriched. The number of species of fish has grown from 4 to 25, from 6 to 36 birds and insects from 15 to 192.
efforts to restore urban waterways, however, are filled with challenges, how to convince local business owners who are married to urban landscapes existentes que se pueden obtener beneficios económicos de una renovación ecológica.
Sin embargo, hoy en día, entre los 90 mil visitantes diarios a las riberas del Cheong-gye-cheon figuran los comerciantes de algunas de las tiendas cercanas que se contaron entre los principales oponentes al proyecto en un principio. En una tarde reciente, entre las personas que disfrutaban de un día de campo a lo largo de la vía fluvial se encontraba Yeon Yeong-san, de 63 años, quien maneja una tienda de ropa deportiva con su esposa Lee Geum-hwa, de 56 años, en el cercano Mercado Pyeong-hwa.
Yeon dijo que su familia se mudó al centro de Seúl a fines de los 40 y que tiene cuatro décadas de manejar el negocio. Contó que ahora, estacionarse era más difícil para sus clientes. Sin embargo, dijo: "ya que hay menos tráfico, tenemos mejor aire y naturaleza".
Él y su esposa caminan todos los días a lo largo del arroyo, añadió."Nunca pensamos en hacer ejercicio aquí cuando el arroyo era subterráneo", señaló.
