Can I read Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (Urban and Industrial Environments) on EtoBox?

Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Kibel, Paul Stanton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (Urban and Industrial Environments) about?

Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riversideindustry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks availablefor open space, parks, housing, and nonindustrial uses. Urban rivers, which once functioned as opensewers for cities, are now seen as part of larger watershed ecosystems. Rivertown examines urbanriver 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 theroles of the federal government (in particular, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and citizenactivism in urban river politics. A postscript places New Orleans's experience with HurricaneKatrina in the broader context of the national riverside land-use debate. Each case study inRivertown considers the critical questions of who makes decisions about our urban rivers, who paysto implement these decisions, and who ultimately benefits or suffers from these decisions. In LosAngeles, for example, local nonprofit and academic research groups played crucial roles, whereasChicago relied on a series of engineering interventions. Some cases

Who reads Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (Urban and Industrial Environments)?

Author

Kibel, Paul Stanton

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262113076

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Architecture, Sociology