Rivertown Rethinking Urban Rivers Paul Stanton Kibel by Paul Stanton Kibel 9780262612197, 0262612194 instant download after payment.

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--such as the innovativecooperative framework adopted to address problems in the Guadalupe River watershed--offer models forother areas. In each case, authors evaluate the ecological issues and consider urban riverrestoration projects in relation to other urban economic and environmental initiatives in theregion. Rivertown is a valuable resource for urban planners and citizen groups as well as forscholars.Paul Stanton Kibel is Director of Policy West, a public policy consultancy, and anenvironmental and water rights attorney with Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley. He is AdjunctProfessor at Golden Gate University School of Law, where he also directs the City Parks Project, andteaches water policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Heis the author of The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage.
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