A garden bridge that works: how Seoul succeeded where London failed

Seoul’s ambitious Skygarden – which revives a disused elevated 1970s highway with 24,000 plants – is openingStop me if you’ve heard this before. The ambitious mayor of a big city backs a project to put a garden on a bridge. A celebrated designer is appointed and seductive images released. It gets compared to the High Line in New York – that urban phenomenon envied as much by rival cities as the Eiffel Tower once was. It provokes controversy.
This much the Skygarden