Unloved city rivers around the world – your pictures and stories

Guardian: LA’s river is not your average city river, and is iconic for very different reasons to the picturesque Seine of Paris, or historic Thames of London. It is a mostly dry abandoned concrete channel, used for car chase movie scenes and home to a growing homeless population – though, as Olly Wainwright reports, there are ambitious plans to “revitalise” it. Although rivers often become celebrated focal points of cities around the world, many others are buried, neglected, underused or mistreated. We......

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