Urban rivers : remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and North America /

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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vien...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Evenden, Matthew D. (Matthew Dominic), 1971-, Castonguay, Stéphane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
Colección:History of the urban environment Urban rivers
Temas:
Rivers > Economic aspects > North America.
Rivers > Economic aspects > Europe.
City planning > North America.
City planning > Europe.
HISTORY / General
City planning.
Rivers > Economic aspects.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Communities - Urban Groups.
Cours d'eau > Europe.
Cours d'eau > Amérique du Nord.
Europe.
North America.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:082297794X
9780822977940

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