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The water and trees help us capitalize on our Forest City image. Keep the river flowing so it's clean, prevent dumping of waste and ensue trees are abundant and healthy. Riverwalks encourage creative areas where artists of all kinds and musicians can perform. Unique chatting areas, patios, cafes, places for people to meet. These were the things that made the French Quarter in New Orleans vibrate with life and it energized people. Energy stimulates others. We are an interactive species - we need spaces where we can relate to one another in real life and in real time. Downtown and the Thames should be the focus of green creative resurgence - and small enterprises with character like creative boutiques. We've got the people, the places and the potential.

Exactly, Trevor. See Ron Barkwell elsewhere here saying about the same. I think the rive is the key, no matter what else happens.

The Forks ? - try Winnipeg. Lots of rivers have "forks" and settlement often begins there. The Thames runs along the spine of sw Ontario and a number of communities formed along its banks, and a number were originally planned.. Joe - look at the map today at historical ones by Bellin, Mrs. Simcoe, Brigley, etc., to see what the Founder thought he waterway would do to anchof his vision of a wilderness Capital of the Canadas - inland transportation. Wrong. Portage to York?? And sticking this old world city name on the maps stuck us with the London parva personality, whereas those who came in to populate it were really not from England, let alone its capital.
While the District Courthouse had a legitimate reason to be built there 1829+, the imposition of the Moriyama building in 1980 doomed this area, blocking off the view and complicating further access to the flats. Mind you the police station was there for years near the jail. Unfortunately the river is irrelevant to many in the now-vast geography of London today. Most suggestions are to tart the Forks up more, rather than having a protected natural area in the heart of the city - think of walking parks in the other London.. (The idea some have that this community was an extension of a native settlement is hilarious - our first citizen was a Scot, his Westminster Township wife, a business woman, and they ran a hotel and a drinking establishment..) Would paths all along the river branches help for the less athletic to enjoy this asset too?
Can you be encouraged to publish the little description of the founding, the 1793 Littlehales' Journal, so we all have the understanding of our siting? Well out of copyright.

There is much truth in this sentiment. The river and the forks in particular, is what this city has that no other city has, not in Canada, not anywhere. It all started there and perhpa sit should all start there again