In Berlin it's hard to tell the difference between natural and artificial waterways. It was a swamp before it was a city, and the river has been heavily managed and canalized; many lakes or ponds have been preserved, or formalized out of the swamp and old waterways.
Tiergarten is laced with mini canals and ponds. Neuer See--New Lake (a clue that it's artificial)-- has a nice beer garden on its banks.
Rafael Dujarric -
https://www.spottedbylocals.com/berl...-am-neuen-see/
An old streambed runs along the southern edge of Shöneberg and Wilmersdorf. It's been converted to a kind of sunken park. A Ubahn station sort of "bridges" it at one point, which is pretty neat. The western end of the park now holds all the water, in Fennsee, which feeds a stream of some kind that feeds into a natural chain of similarly linear lakes and streams further west.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ssestraße.jpg
Across Charlottenburg to the north lies Jungfernheide, a vast forested park with a symmetrical, swimmable lake featuring an island in the middle and beaches at each end.
Colin Smith -
http://geo.hlipp.de/photo/42595
Jungfernheide kind of demonstrates the difficulty in distinguishing natural and artificial features in Berlin. It's blatantly not natural when seen from above, but Germans are obsessed with wild looking landscaping and re-naturalizing everything. I didn't realize how far that went until they ripped up my neighbourhood park (which has its own natural-ish lake, connected to a stream that's mostly culvert and concrete) and re-landscaped it. What I'd assumed was a naturally occurring shitshow of bushes, ferns, and ivy was actually carefully planned to look like a shitshow.
At the same time, Germans love micromanaging. That impulse extends to waterways, which have all been trifled with to some extent.
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Originally Posted by cabasse
yeah, we recently ripped out the downtown connector and replaced it with this
in my dreams
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You had me going there for a second. I couldn't believe I hadn't heard that Atlanta did that. Just look at the potential for a new waterfront!
But yeah, this is a seriously good idea. All these sunken freeways could easily become beautiful urban waterways
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