Los Angeles River Master Plan to Reclaim Major Urban River

Los Angeles was the victim of decades of manmade hubris when it came to nature.  All our urban rivers were turned into concrete channels to prevent flooding.  The Corps of Engineers thought fast was better. It took decades to realize that fast waters just dumped all our urban garbage into our bays because of the urban runoff thoroughfare.

Urban planners have seen the light.  The Master Plan focuses on revitalizing the Los Angeles River and Tujunga Wash, and the plan's goals apply to the entire Los Angeles Watershed. The decade long program provies balanced urban development for aesthetic, recreational, flood control and environmental functions of the river. 

Live is already returning to small patches of the river that have been reclaimed.  Fish, birds, and even people are returning to the natural beauty and bounty of the river.

This massive undertaking is worldclass...and the scale is almost unbelievable.  My father used to say that remodeling costs twice as much as building new -- and that could be applied here but in more exponential scales.

Learn more about the LA River Revitalization and follow this urban planning project based on the green and sustainable communities philosophies that are being birthed to cope with today's challenges: climate change, severe weather patterns, urban density and shifting populations from rural to urban living.

The Los Angeles river Revitalization Master Plan