<story><title>Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures</title><url>http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s just functional. It has a job to do, moving water, and it does it.&lt;p&gt;When the Panama Canal locks were nearing completion, some artists were sent down to Panama to advise on decoration. There was talk of building stone lions at the locks. The artists came back and reported that the works had been carried out with no regard for decoration, and the best thing to do would be to keep them that way, purely functional. That was done, and the locks, impressive but plain-looking, are still that way.&lt;p&gt;River control for intermittent floods through populated areas has produced some good solutions. The Guadalupe River goes through San Jose, and floods every few years. The river now runs through a narrow channel deep in a big, wide channel. The big wide channel has walkways and bike paths, which will be underwater during a flood. And now, multiple homeless encampments.&lt;p&gt;Tapei has a similar setup on a much larger scale.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Guadalupe_River_(California)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Guadalupe_River_(California)&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures</title><url>http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adunk</author><text>This is great reading for everyone who grew up watching Terminator 2 and was fascinated by the chase scene where the T-1000 terminator bursts through a bridge down into in the LA river.&lt;p&gt;This seems to be the bridge: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goo.gl&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;3v3LK6h75LqrzexSA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goo.gl&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;3v3LK6h75LqrzexSA&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>