Mr. Gehry was recruited by the L.A. River Revitalization Corporation, a nonprofit group founded by the city in 2009 to coordinate restoring the river, and encouraged by Mayor Eric M. Garcetti to quietly work up a plan. It would be the latest in a shelf full of restoration plans including, most promisingly, a $1.35 billion Army Corps of Engineers project to restore 11 miles of river with shrubbery, parks, bikeways and walkways.
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