Gangdong-gu Godeok-ro (Seonsasa Intersection~Emart Intersection) Becomes a 2.8km Autumn Garden

Creating a Clean Street Forest for Walking... Planting 124 Species and Installing Planter Benches

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Gangdong-gu (Mayor Lee Jeong-hoon) has newly renovated the roadside green space on Godeok-ro as the first step to realize the “City of Life Flowing, Gangdong,” creating a refined park and green space environment where nature harmonizes with residents' lives.

Securing a budget of 1 billion KRW from Seoul City last year, Gangdong-gu began high-quality roadside green space maintenance unique to the district starting in December of last year.

The location spans a total of 2.8 km from Seonsa Intersection to E-Mart Intersection, characterized by filling the insufficient greenery along the roadside and refurbishing aging facilities to create a garden-like roadside forest landscape.

To this end, a total of 124 species and 64,537 trees were planted, and roadside flower pots including planter-type benches were introduced, specializing Godeok-ro as a clean street.

Additionally, in sections where the sidewalk width is 6 meters or more, large-scale hub green spaces were created to provide residents with aesthetic tranquility by allowing them to feel the comfort of a garden like their own home.

The district plans to expand the specialized roadside greenery to major routes in Gangdong-gu such as Seongan-ro (Angel Workshop Street) and Cheonho-daero, starting with Godeok-ro.

Each street in Gangdong-gu will be carefully developed so that residents can fully enjoy the changes and beauty of the seasons.

Lee Jeong-hoon, Mayor of Gangdong-gu, said, “Starting with the creation of the roadside forest on Godeok-ro, we expect that the specialized roadside green space projects on major routes in Gangdong-gu will be promoted step by step, turning even the smallest spaces on the streets into resting places filled with nature.”

Gangdong-gu is the autonomous district experiencing the greatest changes in urban spatial structure and park green space paradigms due to large-scale urban development projects such as redevelopment and reconstruction.

In particular, due to changes in urban structure, a new strategy is needed to resolve the imbalance of park green spaces between the old and new downtown areas, along with systematic connections based on assigning new themes and specializations to park green space hubs.

Accordingly, Gangdong-gu appointed a chief landscape planner for the first time among Seoul’s autonomous districts starting this February and established four strategic directions to realize the “City of Life Flowing, Gangdong.”

The four strategies are ▲expansion of roadside green spaces and urban greening of the old downtown ▲creation of fine dust blocking forests ▲ecological circles and specialization of major green spaces ▲creation of wildlife habitats and wise forest management.

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