RIVERTOWN. RETHINKING URBAN RIVERS
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- EAN: 9780262612197
- ISBN: 978--0-262-61219-7
- Editorial: MIT PRESS
- Año de la edición: 2007
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 15 X 25 cm.
- Páginas: 232
- Materias:
urbanismo
ríos, canales, defensas
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Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space, parks, housing, and nonindustrial uses. Urban rivers, which once functioned as open sewers for cities, are now seen as part of larger watershed ecosystems. Rivertown examines urban river restoration efforts across the United States, presenting case studies from Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Oregon; Chicago; Salt Lake City; and San Jose. It also analyzes the roles of the federal government (in particular, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and citizen activism in urban river politics. A postscript places New Orleans's experience with Hurricane Katrina in the broader context of the national riverside land-use debate.
