![]() ![]() There, docked by the cold grey concrete walls that line the river and almost invisible among the chaos of the city, was a small floating island. One of the first times I visited the Main Branch of the Chicago River – an iconic American landscape often identified by its hulking bascule bridges and skyscraper-lined edges – a much smaller intervention caught my eye. I’d like to describe one such opportunity that we are in the process of realizing on the Chicago Riverwalk. Considered this way, riverfronts are incredibly rich design opportunities – their reach much broader that our land use and mindset boundaries suggest. Add time and movement to the equation, they are truly four-dimensional. They are deep places – as wide as their historic floodplain, as vertical as the air impacted by their unique microclimate, and as deep as a thousand layers of geologic development of their soil. Yet, riverfronts are more than this thin edge. And, in those places that have seen investment along their waterways, perhaps they think of the places and pathways that line it. When most think of their experience of their own riverfront, no doubt their mind goes to the river bank.
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