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I'm surprised that this construction is considered a "river".
by sworc 7y ago
I'm surprised that this construction is considered a "river".
- NullPrefix 7y agoWhat would you call it? Half-pipe ?
- tpm 7y agoIn our country, we would call it a drainage channel or something like that. We expect rivers to at least look a bit natural, even if most of them are heavily regulated anyway.
- nullc 7y agoThere was a pre-existing river. They paved it to make it better at draining floodwaters. If not for that history it would probably just be called the LA storm drain network or something like that.
- alfanick 7y agoAmericans tend to call artificial structures with names usually associated with more natural structures: they have a lot of “parks” in their cities, which usually end up being just a concrete avenue with a few trees in it (still infinite progress from concrete avenues with no trees at all). I’m always so sad to visit US cities as European
- carlob 7y agoAlso a European, but I really don't understand you. I don't know what you think park means in a urban context, to me a park is a man-made green area. Anyway, even when you go to a forest in Europe you likely have no idea of how much managed they are, it's exactly like farming, just on a different time scale. There is really almost nothing that is not somehow man-made on this side of the pond.