Daylighting refers to uncovering built-over rivers and streams and reintegrating them into the urban landscape. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Daylighting Rivers”
A century or so ago when cities were getting built up, sometimes small streams would just be in the way.
And civil engineers would find ways to either route the water into pipes or even pave over a stream so that it’s underground.
But there’s been a movement in recent years to liberate those streams, to bring them back.
And the term for that, I learned recently, is daylighting.
Oh, daylighting.
That makes a lot of sense.
Daylighting a river or daylighting a stream.
They’ve done this in Yonkers, New York.
They’ve also had spectacular results with one in Seoul, South Korea.
Daylighting.
That’s cool.
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