Todays 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 Orleanss experience with Hurricane Katrina in the broader context of the national riverside land-use debate. Each case study in Rivertown considers the critical questions of who makes decisions about our urban rivers; who pays to implement these decisions; and who ultimately benefits or suffers from these decisions. In Los Angeles; for example; local nonprofit and academic research groups played crucial roles; whereas Chicago relied on a series of engineering interventions. Some cases--such as the innovative cooperative framework adopted to address problems in the Guadalupe River watershed--offer models for other areas. In each case; authors evaluate the ecological issues and consider urban river restoration projects in relation to other urban economic and environmental initiatives in the region. Rivertown is a valuable resource for urban planners and citizen groups as well as for scholars.Paul Stanton Kibel is Director of Policy West; a public policy consultancy; and an environmental and water rights attorney with Fitzgerald Abbott Beardsley. He is Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law; where he also directs the City Parks Project; and teaches water policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy; University of California; Berkeley. He is the author of The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage.
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