Design Observation Blog - Nature Remembered

On my walk to Home Depot I walked over a piece of public art that denotes where the Temescal Creek used to flow and now is below ground. A small reminder of what we build on top of to create streets and houses and stores, which in the case of Emeryville, is creeks and Indian graveyards. To what purpose though? It looks nice, but it's a reminder of what is gone and can't be reclaimed without the destruction of established city. But maybe a reminder is just what we need.