page_title: Freeway removal
section_title: Urban intensification
hierarchical_section_title: Freeway removal / Urban intensification
caption_attribution_description: Map it: Google Earth | Street | Satellite | Hybrid | Nautical Cheong Gye Cheon stream. It runs through the city and the odd thing is, I didn't see any drain lines connecting into the channel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggyecheon
context_page_description: Freeway removal is a public policy of urban planning policy to demolish freeways and create mixed-use urban areas, parks, residential, commercial, or other land uses. Such highway removal is often part of a policy to promote smart growth, transit-oriented development, walkable and bicycle-friendly cities. In some cases freeways are re-imagined as boulevards, rebuilt as tunneled freeways or relocated through less densely-developed areas.
context_section_description: To counteract urban sprawl, some cities have made redevelopment plans around urban intensification. Urban intensification – also known as Compact Cities in Europe – is an urban planning technique which promotes high residential density with mixed land uses based around an efficient public transport system. Typically, cities redevelop neighborhoods to concentrate growth in the center of the city with the goal of better land usage to support a high concentration of jobs and residents.  Smart growth principles and incentives generate residential, retail, and recreational development.  The purpose is to transform deteriorating, low-density commercial corridors into mixed-use corridors that focus around transit-oriented development. Cities have implemented plans to use intensification corridors functioning as boulevards aimed at being transit supportive and pedestrian friendly, and provide\ a focus for higher density mixed-use development.
  The success of transit oriented development along these corridors with subsequent increase in transit ridership has been well documented in neighborhoods such as Ballston and Rosslyn in Arlington County, Virginia.  Other cities, such as Portland Oregon, have implemented freeway removal policies to create intensification corridors.  Much of this began in the freeway and expressway revolts of the 1960s and 1970s.
caption: Cheonggyecheon in Seoul, South Korea was formerly the route for a major elevated highway; It was completed in 1976 and removed in 2005.
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