Located at the first ford above the river estuary, the Old Town of Bremen grew on a sand dune, sited above flood level on the Weser spillway, the glacially widened river channel.
Instead, the Dutch have spent the past decade deepening and widening rivers, creating new side canals that provide extra capacity, and setting aside land as dedicated flood plains.
It is apparently "specifically designed to welcome the sunlight in and widen the river views out".
Officials say that over the next three years they plan to spend $50 million more to widen the river banks to make way for more commercial development.
Flooding had been a problem for hundreds of years, and, in 1946, the decision was made to straighten and widen the river to increase its capacity.
In 1925, the USACE began a project to widen the river's navigation channel to 200 feet; two years later, they began dredging a deep-water channel from Kansas City to Sioux City.
In July, the Civil Works Review Board of the Army Corps of Engineers unanimously approved a plan to restore habitat, widen the river, create wetlands and provide access points and bike trails along an 11-mile stretch north of downtown through Elysian Park.
These widen the river, increase the flow, and strain the system of levees and spillways that contain the "Big Muddy".
The eight-mile ride, she said in an e-mail message, takes you "past sheep grazing, open fields, the widening river".
We illustrate this through a case study of a river in Jakarta, Indonesia, where plans call for widening the river channel, stabilizing the banks with concrete, and restricting access to the river.
Workmen carefully damage the ruins to enhance the picturesque; a landscape architect installs hills and widens the river.
