River Talk - The Next Generation of Parks 2: Stoss Landscape Urbanism

From River Talk:

Titled "Streamlines," this proposal focuses on getting people to the river for direct encounters.  Bringing the streams of the river into the streams of the city, this proposal employs highly dynamic metaphors and imagery.

I have to say that the recognition that the river is in fact many rivers, that the city is many cities, is welcome.  Too often it seems that people plan and design for a monolithic hypothetical "city" that flattens out the rich, and growing, diversity of the biological and human systems that make up this place.

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