Not exact matches
Waterfalls are a rare thing indeed to
see in an
urban area, but right here in New York City, The Bronx
River offers a waterfall surrounded by a pine forest.
In a vast panorama
seen from above, Chelsea Winter with Elevated Park: New York High Line (Mass Moca # 41)(2006), writing complements the visual choppiness of the city, adding scumbled
urban texture in snow, the NYC High Line elevated train track a
river of white dividing the painting, a kind of narration of the city.
He made the call in a presidential memorandum with no teeth or money behind it, which mainly serves to put pressure on government officials to focus existing programs in ways that give the country's largely urbanized populace opportunities to get wet or muddy, to
see an orange newt wriggling on a leafy park path, to have a chance to toss a fishing line in a reclaimed
urban river.
An
urban ranger who gives tours of the
river and wrote «Thirteen Ways of
Seeing Nature in LA» in The Believer, her book, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, poses different ideas about nature, looks in the «wrong places» for it, and exposes idealized views.
You can also type in «Liberty Street Elmira, NY» to
see an unplugged well near a
river and a fault as well as multiple residential homes in an
urban neighborhood.
In Houston, for instance, we have so many
rivers, bayous, creeks, and streams that it's easy to
see how green infrastructure could wind around and through dense
urban villages of many sizes and scales.
Flooding also causes major human and economic consequences by inundating
urban and agricultural land and by disrupting navigation in the region's roads,
rivers, and reservoirs (
see Ch.
Our region has
seen some successful innovation in water management in many
urban water systems and even the West's most complex institutions for governing water such as those in place for the Colorado
River.
Waterfalls are a rare thing indeed to
see in an
urban area, but right here in New York City, The Bronx
River offers a waterfall surrounded by a pine forest.