The poster child of all daylighting projects is Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon stream, completed in 2005. Known as “daylighting”, it is part of a broader global movement towards rediscovering urban rivers in cities worldwide.
“As in many cities, Sheffield’s rivers were culverted over in the late 19th century because the water quality was so poor – they were basically sewers.”īut the success of uncovering Porter Brook is the first step in a new project to bring back Sheffield’s lost urban rivers – to remove the culverts and integrate them into the city again. “You’d be hard-pressed to find the Sheaf anywhere in the centre,” says Simon Ogden, head of city regeneration at Sheffield city council. The Porter Brook before it was recovered.
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