Introduction
3 Rivers Wet Weather, Inc. in cooperation and partnership with the 3 Rivers 2nd Nature project in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, sponsors a series of River Dialogues designed to generate interest and ideas. River dialogues provide communities with tools to help reveal the "public value" of Pittsburgh's urban waterfronts. Pittsburgh's rivers are moving from the era of private-industrial use into an era of public recreation and access. By noting opportunities such as intact habitats, increased biodiversity, good water quality and easy public access, we hope to facilitate these transformations. We also want to recognize current constraints, such as sewer infrastructure problems and habitat loss. Using this two-fold approach, we initiate public dialogues to help solve water quality problems and develop the uses of our urban riverfronts as amenities.

Pittsburgh is interesting, you might say, but so is a collision between a truck, a school bus and five cars. The boys who made their money here ran away and left you to live in this pile of scrap.

-Frank Lloyd Wright, defending his proposed project for Point State Park in 1949

Debates from an industrial past
River Dialogues
Ideas for an ecological future