America’s $25 Billion River Makeover: Turning Concrete To Parks!
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- This is how America Is turning its Concrete Rivers To Urban Green Spaces in Los Angeles. The LA River is a massive concrete embankment and floor which acts as a drainage system. Ever since its construction, the embankments have over time caused intensive damage both socially and environmentally. To rectify the mistake made, an initiative was taken to revitalize the LA River by transforming it into a natural urban habitat. This project is a massive undertaking costing $25 Billion, and would take nearly 50 years to complete.
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0:00 Intro
0:43 Historical Significance
1:38 Environmental and Social Damage
2:21 Origins of the Restoration Project
3:52 Different Phases of the project
5:18 Construction And Design
7:46 Criticism and Challenges
9:10 Latest Updates
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$50 million for 800 apartments? That sounds outrageous
62k per unit is pretty good
$50 million for 800 Apartments? That's like... let me see... if I divide by apartments to dollars then that would make it... let me see... when that's there and there that'll be.... $62.5K for each apartment.
50 million to go towards purchasing the land. I don’t believe they said anything about how much construction would cost.
Good idea!
Can't wait for the industrial section of the marina in back Long Beach to be reimagined. So much potential
this is a super idea sould be a win for native wildlife. also it would filter all that water naturally before it returns to the ocean
Definitely would help. But that water will always be toxic lmao. Any time it rains the filth of la washes somewhere
@@SloppypapiBeefboi wetlands reduce this pollution by sequestering it and sometimes chemically processing it. You can literally treat sewage by running it through a wetland.
I been in Los Angeles over 40 years and I love it.
I look at the Los Angeles River often when taking trains into Union Station. I already see ducks and other waterfowl in the river when before it was lifeless. The upstream work is necessary to slow water volume in the lower part of the River. I am glad that Los Angeles is finally appreciating the river that created the city.
There are four major issues that have to be considered when reinventing the river:
1. Flood management
2. Green space for wildlife/ecosystem conservation and public parks
3. Low income neighborhoods along side the river
4. Critical infrastructure along side the river.
If we want to accomplish objective 2, that threatens objective 1, unless we widen the river, which threatens 3 and 4, as widening the river would require us to displace communities and move (if possible and finacially viable) critical infunsturcture.
The various groups involved in this project have to recognize for this to work, no one group can get everything they want out of it. A compromise is required. Environmentalist and community advocates will have to work together instead of against each other and be willing to make trade offs.
1. Not all the cement can be removed
2. The river's width could be expanded in some but not all places
3. Some comunities and/or infustructure may need to be displaced. (Idealistically, quality replacement housing could be built before moving people away from the river)
Rent will be low if someone creates their own ecosystem
Loving the project..
In my fictional world, this project already finished and successful
Am loving your channel and informative video there
I’d really love to see this before I die. I won’t hold my breath tho. I’m getting up there. I wonder if there’s a way to contribute? LA saved me from a small mundane life into one where I’ve really thrived. I’d like to give back now.
Go to your local city hall meetings to support sustainable transit like biking, electric trains, busses and more infrastructure for all of the above. Housing also needs to be addressed by eliminating the minimum parking requirements, minimum lot and drastically changing the zoning map to allow for dwelling units, denser housing and apartments which increase tax revenue and allow for better services. You got it.
@@miles5600 What Miles said!
What do you do for a living
@@miles5600 thank you for the information. I live in the Palisades but I’d often see the river working g at the Burbank studios and Nestlé in Glendale
@@julianperez4049 now I’m a trust attorney but before law school I worked at the movie studios and Nestlé in computer graphics for labeling and movie posters. Not glamorous, just cut and paste film stills.
Great idea..
Is this an automated voice? I hate channels that use them
Check out what the Army Corps of Engineers did with Brush Creek in Kansas City MO.
Well damn I am impressed
so ill wait till 2050 until i go to L.A. so i can see the city as i want to see it. With the river complete, because i think that will be one of if not my favorite part of the city. L.A. is going to be better than its ever been if the continue with metro rail building at the pace they are building their metro network; with the added skyscrapers the city is going in the right direction
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great
I don't think they need to worry about flooding concerns coming back. It never rains here in LA.
It DOES rain, but only a couple times a year. Sometimes even flash floods can happen. But not often.
I happened to be passing over the river last time it rained and it seemed about 50-75% full. When it rains it RAINS
Whoa, I thought they were going to cover the whole river with solar panels...
No that’s the aqueduct
@@fty-ys4ni ah. Now awesome!
Hahaha, 25-50 years completion timeline, this is hilarious!
Typical American incompetence
Ikr?!? 😂 they should really put some beavers there to help with the regreening part
An improvement, but any changes to the planet Earth is unfortunate.
We have so much land,,but everyone on top of eachother ,,so much cement,,where is the nature?? This is sad.😢
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I don’t think is a bad idea and it’s a great investment going into the future . I think it’s time the US should focus on building projects to benefit the community instead of spending worthless money to other countries when our own country need to be focus on . Peoples will absolutely be upset if their tax money is not going to build road and things going on in their state but elsewhere . The US been known for our generosity all over the world but you know it’s time just to also help build our own country too and stayed out of other countries crap 💩 they don’t butt in with our , we don’t butt w them . Next
I already see homeless encampments popping up along the river habitat now
grow up
@@daharos he isnt wrong though...
@@daharos You're viewing the world through a child's eyes if you don't think this will happen. The hobos already make use of camping out everywhere else, so why not a nice new park?
And in respects I live in one of those encampments to this day and few areas to get Wi-Fi to watch content like this
I’d also use the rivers for hydro energy collection and flying car freeways on or high above the rivers too
Can building affordable apartment?
No ?? Why earth deserve every living things it’s not only for human
I like the idea. but how about building more affordable housing for the people? billion dollars can build thousand of houses that people can afford. just saying.
i agree with all the billions of dollars their should not be homeless
There's been a $7.2 billion dollar budget to address the homelessness problem in Los Angeles. How's that money being spent? Who knows.
And where is this affordable housing going to be build it! LA would need to buy 1/3 of every city within LA County which would be massive amounts of reestates to then develop it for affordable housing and it will be just slightly bigger than a Hong Kong apartment lol! Not for family of 7-9 ppl which most minorities except Asians have!
@@StevenJacobs I live in the burned out husks of the Midwest where houses outnumber people three to one. We still have homelessness issues. You can not build your way out of homelessness. The problem seems to be lack of culture coupled with rampant hard drug use. It would be better for Americans to learn who their neighbors are and how can we be of service to each other. Sterile modern architecture only reinforces the idea that we are moving in the wrong direction.
@@paco7992 Tell California that. Everyone complains about not enough money being spent on homelessness or "affordable housing" and that's not it at all. We need to bring back mental institutions and deal with drugs, rather than making everything just "legal" or even just handing money to the poor. We need (back to work) programs.
Yea great idea, build a beautiful river park and let the homeless ruin it. This project is pointless if they don’t prevent the homeless from invading it.
You know that will be a nice place for the homeless to live and sleep since y’all can’t seem to care enough to build a homeless center / shelter to return them back to being self sustaining. So sad they don’t care
Exactly what I was thinking when they showed the illustrations of the finished product, look at all that new tent land!
Happy clean low income communites on both banks of the river? Scam right there.
Wow, 25 to 50 years to just repair a canal???? That's outrageous..... China took less than that to go into space.... China only took 20 years to transform its cities into 1st class.... China took just 10 years to ramp up it's high speed railway system.... how we let China repair this canal in 5 years???? Just let the Chinese do it for cheap and fast.....
China is a crap country just like you're a pathetic troll.
They arent "repairing" the canal. They are making it less damaging to the people, something the CCP has a hard time doing.
Why does it cost so much? We pay people better here and stuff costs more. Plus many middle-men involved in the process
No affordable housing nearby the canal...... no low income families too.... they turn any beautiful place into a favela or little Africa
whatever racist. grow up.
Ok
Yep. "Affordable Housing" is the new term for what was known as section 8 housing for decades, And if they build "affordable housing", The places are never kept nice and the local area surrounding those places are affected. How do I know? I deliver construction material to these places and the workers there say that, Yes, affordable housing harms any nice community.
And if one pulls their head out of their ass and acknowledges reality in America, You would know that the majority of Low income people dont give a fuck about their communities and dont care to integrate well with non low income individuals in whatever community they wind up arriving in. Some people who are low income really do try to get out of that situation and really take advantage to do so with low income housing and benefits to get move to a better socioeconomic position, But most dont and will never care too. And they just defile a good community wherever they are implanted. But no one wants to actually have that conversation because it makes you look hateful and non inclusive.
Taxpayers theft
Lies
All those artificial islands got washed away in several hours during heavy raining for 2 weeks. Waist of hard earned tax payers money.
$25 billion dollars for the river and 25 years total waste of money and time a tiny percentage of people will use it with that amount we can fund section 8 to help thousands of homeless and mentally ill people repair potholes and sidewalks etc
total waste of tax money
you're a waste of human skin.
@@daharos thief calls for catching thieves