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99% Invisible
Pat Morrison, LA Times columnist and author of the book Rio LA, said that even before human intervention, the LA River behaved in peculiar ways. Morrison said that the LA Chamber of Commerce actually had all of these concerns about all of the things that came with population growth, like pollution and traffic and disappearing public park space. The Olmsted plan has served as an inspiration for some of the proposals to revitalize the LA River.
This is Pat Morrison, LA Times columnist and author of the book Rio LA.
— Episode: A River Runs Through Los Angeles
Episode: A River Runs Through Los Angeles
Pat Morrison, LA Times columnist and author of the book Rio LA, said that even before human intervention, the LA River behaved in peculiar ways. Morrison said that the LA Chamber of Commerce actually had all of these concerns about all of the things that came with population growth, like pollution and traffic and disappearing public park space. The Olmsted plan has served as an inspiration for some of the proposals to revitalize the LA River.
This is Pat Morrison, LA Times columnist and author of the book Rio LA.
She says that even before human intervention, the LA River behaved in peculiar ways.
So she says that in the late 1920s, as Los Angeles was experiencing this super rapid growth, the LA Chamber of Commerce actually had all of these concerns about all of the things that came with population growth, stuff like pollution and traffic and disappearing public park space.
And I think that's the thing that changes in people's minds when they talk about it as a river.
Don't make Pat Morrison cry.