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L.A. River 2.0

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
12 September 2004 - 5:00am

Can Los Angeles learn from Chicago and New York about how to make the Los Angeles River a 'sparkling necklace of parks and mixed-use projects'?

"...Long stretches of both rivers are convenient to their downtowns and present a variety of challenging sites for some imaginative development that does not require the disruption of existing neighborhoods and the always painful relocation of people and businesses... The L.A. River begs for a vision of an intense linear development, marking the eastern gateway to Downtown and anchoring the adjacent nascent neighborhoods. Think of the high-rise housing along Manhattan's East River and now spreading across the waterway to the borough of Queens."

Full Story: Getting the L.A. River Right
Source: Los Angeles Downtown News, September 13, 2004
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"Traditionally, the federal government has had very clearly defined roles for states, but not for cities," said Rohit Aggarwala, director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability for New York City. "That's a problem."
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