• Manzanares River Banks

    More information coming soon. Before Source: SustainableCitiesCollective After Source: SustainableCitiesCollective Rio Madrid highway goes under park. Source: eoi.esRead more

  • Riverfront Parkway

    The Riverfront Parkway in Chattanooga, Tennessee, once conceived as a waterfront freight route quickly became a physical barrier to the city’s riverfront. In the 1960s, Chattanooga built a four lane, limited-access, at-grade highway along the city’s riverfront. The highway was built to efficiently...Read more
  • Park East Freeway Looking Southeast - Before

    Park East Freeway

    The Park East Freeway was an unfinished highway intended to extend east towards Lake Michigan and then run south along the shore. The highway met substantial opposition from Milwaukee residents and political leaders in the 1960 and 70s, resulting in only a 0.8-mile elevated spur being built...Read more

  • Cheonggye Freeway

    High-volume expressways were a symbol of economic progress after the Korean War in South Korea. In Seoul, “progress” came with an ecological cost. In 1968, an elevated freeway covered up the Cheonggye Creek, which ran through a rapidly urbanizing Seoul, hiding the features of its historical...Read more