some rough thoughts

I did some research on Internet about “daylighting” streams and get some stuff which I put together on the web site that I just launched to make it a database for my project. The links and the maps in there are my tools.

In the Q & A with Richard Pinkham from one source (3 Rivers 2nd Nature ), it is said that since 1984 till 2000, there were at least 20 daylighting projects that have been completed in the U.S., and at least another 20 were in various stages of development. When David Haley did his unculverting in Ulverston in 1992, it wasn't the first case in the world. However, most of the cases in the files tends to be scientist or engineer-initiated. He seems to be one of the earliest examples to take such task as an artist in Britain. I wonder, what is the impetus to make him undertook the work?

I also noticed in the WEN interview “David Haley on the Record” he mentioned that ‘I spent six or seven months trying to get permission to unculvert the river. It was at the time when the National Rivers Authority was handing over to the Environment Agency. When I eventually got permission to go ahead with the project the Planning Officer said he had never heard of someone applying to unculvert a river.’

Why it took so many months to get permission to unculvert? Does that have anything to do with the administrative transition of the National Rivers Authority? Or, the transition represented a more beneficial inclination towards ecological concerns, and opened up a bigger opportunity to carry out this kind of projects?

The London based artist group Platform also did quite a few works/projects on the buried rivers in London during the early 90s. It seems the unculverting/deculverting/daylighting streams became a focus around that time. Could that be related to the administrative transition or that simply is a result of the artistic effects since Platform recited the influence they have acquired from the current practioners/cultural activists and David Haley is among the list?

Maps of London's Thames valley

Fleet (Hampstead Heath-Blackfriars)



Wandle river



Wandle (wandsworth-merton)



Effra(Herne Hill)

Maps

Ulverston

Ulverston (closer-up)

Bristol

Totnes

Bibliography 參考文獻

(建置中)

Daylighting:

文章：


London River Restoration: Establishing Ecological Resilience and Community Benefit www.riversymposium.com/2006/index.php?element=06WEBBDavid - 116k

Daylighting and Restoring Streams in Rural Community City Centers: Case Studies www.nps.gov/ncrc/programs/rtca/helpfultools/daylighting.pdf - 1138k

Assessing the Feasibility of Creek Daylighting in San Francisco, Part I: A Synthesis of Lessons Learned from Existing Urban Daylighting Projects http://repositories.cdlib.org/wrca/restoration/smith/ - 1155k

URBAN STREAM DAYLIGHTING: Case Study Evaluations www.vwrrc.vt.edu/pdfs/specialreports/sr352007.pdf - 848k

Daylighting: New Life for Buried Streams www.rmi.org/images/other/Water/W00-32_Daylighting.pdf - 3051k

STREAM RESTORATION AND DAYLIGHTING: Opportunities in the Pittsburgh Region http://3r2n.collinsandgoto.com/revalued/stream-restoration-daylighting/index.htm

STREAM RESTORATION AND DAYLIGHTING: Opportunities in the Pittsburgh Region report http://3r2n.collinsandgoto.com/revalued/stream-restoration-daylighting/stream-restoration-and-daylighting.pdf - 303k



網站：

Daylighting (streams) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylighting_(streams)
The River Restoration Center http://www.therrc.co.uk/lrap.php
3 Rivers 2nd Nature http://3r2n.cfa.cmu.edu/policy/lost/
Daylighting streams: Water and Sewers Utilities http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/watersewers/environment/streams.htm
Still Creek Enhancement http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cityplans/stillcreek/index.htm
Restoring Rivers.org http://www.restoringrivers.org/oldsite/example/southeast/1longdale.html
Riverways Program http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/river/programs/stream/index.htm
Still Creek Rehabilitation and Enhancement Study http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cityplans/stillcreek/study/index.htm

David Haley & WSI

相關連結：

David Haley on the Record http://www.wemmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=23

Welfare State International http://www.welfare-state.org/

Welfare State International : theater collection, University of Bristol http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/welfarestate.html

Lanternhouse International http://www.lanternhouse.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=12

General Readings

《量繪形貌－新類型公共藝術》(Mapping the Terrain : New Genre Public Art) edit. by Suzanne Lacy，2004，遠流中文版

Restoring Streams in Cities, Ann L. Riley, 1998, Island Press, Washington D.C.