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      The politics of urban nature restoration: The case of Cheonggyecheon restoration in Seoul, Korea

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      International Development Planning Review
      Liverpool University Press

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          This paper is a critical analysis of the political conflicts behind the restoration of the urban stream called 'Cheonggyecheon' in Seoul. The conflicts arose between the Seoul City government and the coalition of NGOs around different ideologies of nature: environmental managerialism vs. deep ecologism. The paper dissects the process of reinventing Cheonggyecheon into a natural stream and, in doing so, discloses the exclusion of the deep ecologists by the hegemonic environmental managerialists. This process was further reinforced by the subjugation of the restoration project to the political purpose of the initiator and the outcome was a lack of ecological authenticity in the restored stream. This is a historically persisting Cheonggyecheon phenomenon that reflects human attempts to rule over each other through nature.

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                Journal
                idpr
                121627
                International Development Planning Review
                Liverpool University Press
                1474-6743
                1478-3401
                1 January 2010
                12 April 2010
                : 32
                : 2 ( otherID: Q10428708206 )
                : 145-165
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Dankook University, Republic of Korea
                Article
                N447668048N74W27
                10.3828/idpr.2010.05
                c0b43330-2d80-4c03-83de-3e98b16c87ef
                History

                Urban development,Urban design & Planning,Environmental management, Policy & Planning,Geography,Urban, Rural & Regional economics

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