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Environment Redevelopment — Blessing or Curse?
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New York City's need for a great public park was voiced by the poet and editor of the Evening Post (now the New York Post), William Cullen Bryant, and by the first American landscape architect, Andrew Jackson Downing, who began to publicize the city's need for a public park in 1844. A stylish place for open-air driving, similar to the Bois de Boulogne in Paris or London's Hyde Park, was felt to be needed by many influential New Yorkers, and, after an abortive attempt in 1850-51 to designate Jones's Wood, in 1853 the New York legislature settled upon a 700-acre (280 ha) area from 59th to 106th Streets for the creation of the park, at a cost of more than US$5 million for the land alone. (중략)
Before the construction of the park could start, the area had to be cleared of its inhabitants, most of whom were quite poor and either free African Americans or residents of English or Irish origin. Most of them lived in small villages, such as Seneca Village, Harsenville, or the Piggery District; or else in the school and convent at Mount St. Vincent's Academy. Around 1,600 residents occupying the area at the time were evicted under the rule of eminent domain during 1857. Seneca Village and parts of the other communities were razed to make room for the park.
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Redevelopment — Blessing or Curse?
Guryong Residents, Gangnam Office, Seoul City Split Over Rezoning Plan
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter
Against the backdrop of Tower Palace and other luxury residence complexes in affluent southern Seoul, tiny, shoddy shacks unevenly built with boards, vinyl and cloth stand side-by-side.
These unregistered houses don't have addresses and mail doesn't reach them. The residents pay their water and electric bills together and share toilets.
Located at the foot of Mt. Daemo in Gaepo-dong, Guryong Village is one of the largest unlicensed shack clusters. Currently, some 1,300 households are in the village of about 491,000 square meters, according to the local district office.
The village was created around 1988 when the government removed illegal houses under redevelopment projects ahead of the Seoul Olympic Games. The people who lost their houses were driven into the village and built their shacks on private land owned by others.
The fate of the village residents has been thrown into uncertainty after an unidentified owner of about 40 percent of the land in the village recently filed for redevelopment. The Gangnam District Office announced the plan to let private construction firms redevelop the area with apartment complexes, a school and a park in May, the first solid development plan to emerge after years of endless rumors.
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*Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=48706&categoryCode=117
QUESTION
1. Where can we find a place under redevelopment? Let's talk about it.
2. Do you think we need to see it as a plan for future or tragedy?
3. How can we balance those groups who have different opinions?
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Before the construction of the park could start, the area had to be cleared of its inhabitants, most of whom were quite poor and either free African Americans or residents of English or Irish origin. Most of them lived in small villages, such as Seneca Village, Harsenville, or the Piggery District; or else in the school and convent at Mount St. Vincent's Academy. Around 1,600 residents occupying the area at the time were evicted under the rule of eminent domain during 1857. Seneca Village and parts of the other communities were razed to make room for the park.
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Redevelopment — Blessing or Curse?
Guryong Residents, Gangnam Office, Seoul City Split Over Rezoning Plan
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter
Against the backdrop of Tower Palace and other luxury residence complexes in affluent southern Seoul, tiny, shoddy shacks unevenly built with boards, vinyl and cloth stand side-by-side.
These unregistered houses don't have addresses and mail doesn't reach them. The residents pay their water and electric bills together and share toilets.
Located at the foot of Mt. Daemo in Gaepo-dong, Guryong Village is one of the largest unlicensed shack clusters. Currently, some 1,300 households are in the village of about 491,000 square meters, according to the local district office.
The village was created around 1988 when the government removed illegal houses under redevelopment projects ahead of the Seoul Olympic Games. The people who lost their houses were driven into the village and built their shacks on private land owned by others.
The fate of the village residents has been thrown into uncertainty after an unidentified owner of about 40 percent of the land in the village recently filed for redevelopment. The Gangnam District Office announced the plan to let private construction firms redevelop the area with apartment complexes, a school and a park in May, the first solid development plan to emerge after years of endless rumors.
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*Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=48706&categoryCode=117
QUESTION
1. Where can we find a place under redevelopment? Let's talk about it.
2. Do you think we need to see it as a plan for future or tragedy?
3. How can we balance those groups who have different opinions?
이 글은「대학연합영어토론동아리」www.pioneerclub.com에서 제공하는 영어토론 정보입니다.
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