Nature is Under your Feet
Discovering London's underground landscape as a potential new nature
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model section of one of the nature chambers
Charlotte van der Woude
For those of us living in the city who are searching for nature don’t need to look far. Underneath our cities we can discover numerous hidden landscapes that offer great opportunity for special and vulnerable biotopes.
The project ‘Nature is Under your Feet’ focuses on the city of London, where twelve former tributaries of the river Thames are currently buried under layers of concrete and still flow beneath the city. For one of these flows – the former River Fleet – a s
hidden waterways under the city of London (red)
Charlotte van der Woude
letting in the tidal Thames under the city
Charlotte van der Woude
tidal nature chamber during high and low tide
Charlotte van der Woude
detail of the new wall on the existing sewer walls
