SEOUL/ (Before) Walkability as New Modernity: Seoul Station Overpass in 1970s (I)

The post below displays a series of photograph [1] that features people, taken prior and right after the construction of the Seoul Station Overpass around 1970.

*Photograph (1971)* – Expansion project commencement, on the road with government officials and a crowd of anticipating citizens
The expansion project was much celebrated among the government and the people.

*Photograph (1971)* – Infrastructural work considered as pride of the city
A group of project officials explaining the scope of work to the public and reporters.
(words on the backdrop: Seoul Station <-> Wanlidong <-> Conduit Tunnel Expansion Project)

*Photograph (1975)* – Interview was done to promote the success of the Overpass

*Photograph (1975)* – The Overpass as a major infrastructural work that gives wide roads to automobile, was considered as pride of Seoul in 1970s.

*Photograph (1975)* – Human beings appeared minute on the vehicle-way
The Overpass was considered in automobile scale.

*Photograph (1979)* – On 29 May, the former president Park Chung-hee and the first lady set feet on the Overpass after the ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the success of this major construction work of the city.

References:

1. 조경과 편의시설 | 서울로7017, Seoul Metropolitan Government , 2018, http://seoullo7017.seoul.go.kr/SSF/ENG/H/ARC/010/01010.do.

SEOUL/ (Before) Walkability as New Modernity: Seoul Station Overpass in 1970s (I)

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