3.8.1
Original Document
The City has grown around the banks of the River Rea and the canal network. The theme of Birmingham as a “Water City” could build from opportunities to transform these existing features and extend the imaginative use of water throughout the streets, squares, parks and buildings of the City Centre with water installations and fountains.
Plain English Translation
The City has grown around the banks of the River Rea and the canal network.
The theme of Birmingham as a “Water City” could transform these and use of water throughout the streets, squares, parks and buildings of the City Centre in water installations and fountains.
Growth of vistas around the canals could include more moorings. There are City Centre flats so why not City Centre houseboats. The existing canals could be planted with reeds to help filter their water (there is still a lot of old industrial sediment) and attract wildlife. It is perhaps fanciful and expensive to splash canal water around in fountains.