Daylighting

Bay Area Rediscovers the Creeks Under The Streets

A new proposal in Berkeley to daylight a portion of Strawberry Creek is the latest in a lineage of small interventions to bring buried portions of the urban watershed to the surface.

10 April 2010 - 9:00am

Streetsblog San Francisco

Plan to Daylight Creek in Downtown Berkeley Hits Roadblock

Berkeley's popular plan to turn a section of Center Street into a pedestrian walkway with a stream and wetlands has been slowed by the fight over downtown development.

9 March 2010 - 10:00am

East Bay Express

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Ian Sacs

"Hoboken Daylighting" In Lieu Of Bump-Outs

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 07:03

So, I'm out at a site visit with the city engineer last week and we're talking about ways to implement curb extensions to reduce pedestrian exposure to vehicular traffic. We're discussing inexpensive ways to accomplish this, and then on queue, as is the right and obligation of all civil engineers, the ugly villain subject of all things bumped-out rears its head: drainage.

Stream Surfacing in the Bronx

Community activists in the South Bronx are working to "daylight" a long-buried stream and re-integrate some natural water treatment processes into the dense urban atmosphere.

21 July 2009 - 7:00am

The New York Moon