“Like many urban rivers it became polluted with oil and coal in the 18th, 19th and 20th century. There’s some effort to clean the restore the river, but it’s still along way from being drinkable. My hope is that the sounds of the river will remind people of the natural beauty that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.”
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
