This comes down to a nicely landscaped riverside park with lots of housing and offices pushing against it, better public transport, cleaner waterways and some permanent sports venues.

It will have 3,500 new homes — 500 of them affordable — as well as 18 acres of public space and a new six-acre riverside park.

The riverside park will thus be within the reach of, and easily accessible to, the entire population of the city.

An idyllic riverside park lies along the river where people walk and bicycle.

The original cupola from the hotel sits in a riverside park across from the condos.

He slid the metal tube into the inside pocket of his anorak, then set off eastwards along the riverside path.

Situated right on the riverside path, his windows looked out onto a patch of long grasses that nodded in the breeze, and beyond them the flat aluminium river.

They must have been 40 yards off the riverside path.

Originally, the popular riverside path purposely deviated away from the river at about a half-mile from the car park.

You can visit museums free of the summer crowds, hike the wintry riverside paths or simply hole up in a cosy local bar when the kitsch becomes too much.

And the next night, more angry locals were campaigning about proposals to build a new weir in their riverside village.

The road takes us through a second riverside village, six miles northwest of the first.

After the crocodile demolishes a riverside village, authorities set an enormous underwater trap for it, but the plan ultimately fails.