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"Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discusses how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultura...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Knoll, Martin (Editor ), Lübken, Uwe (Editor ), Schott, Dieter (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Colección:History of the urban environment.
Temas:
Rivers > Social aspects > History.
Cities and towns > History.
City and town life > History.
City planning > Environmental aspects > History.
Rivers > Regulation > History.
Waterways > History.
Floodplain management > History.
Social change > History.
Landscape changes > History.
Stream restoration > History.
Villes > Histoire.
Vie urbaine > Histoire.
Cours d'eau > Régularisation > Histoire.
Voies navigables > Histoire.
Plaines inondables > Gestion > Histoire.
Paysages > Modifications > Histoire.
Cours d'eau > Réhabilitation > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > General.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Floodplain management.
Landscape changes.
Rivers > Regulation.
Social change.
Stream restoration.
Waterways.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott
  • Part I. Rivers controlled : cities and their watersheds. Rivers, industrial cities, and hinterland production in Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Stéphane Castonguay
  • The Seine as a Parisian river : its imprint, its ascendancy and its mutual dependencies in the eighteenth through the twentieth century / Sabine Barles
  • Watershed democracy or ecological hinterland? : London and the Thames River Basin, 1857-1989 / Vanessa Taylor
  • Part II. Urban rivers transformed and lost. The city whose rivers disappeared : Nantes, 1850-1950 / Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud
  • The new Cuyahoga : straightening Cleveland's crooked river / David Stradling
  • A "slum river" : the unequal urbanization of Bogotá (Colombia) and the transformation of the Tunjuelo River in the twentieth century / Vladimir Sánchez-Calderón
  • Urbanizing a river in a bicultural border region : Strasbourg and the upper Rhine on the way to water modernity, 1789-1925 / Christoph Bernhardt
  • Path dependencies managing the River Elbe and the requirements of Hamburg's open tidal seaport / Dirk Schubert
  • Part III. Cultural dimensions of urban rivers. Rivers as prisms of urban imagining : eastern Sichuan work songs / Igor Iwo Chabrowski
  • The Ganges as an urban sink : urban waste and river flow in colonial India in the nineteenth century / Awadhendra Sharan
  • Polluted Thames, declining city : London as an ecosystem in Charles Dickens's Our mutual friend / Agnes Kneitz
  • Living on the river over the year : the significance of the Neva to imperial Saint Petersburg / Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus
  • Part IV. Rivers regained. "A ridiculous failure of government" : the Chicago River in the age of ecology / Harold L. Platt
  • Shared waters, shared conceptions? : two cities on the river Rhine on the long and winding road to urban sustainability / Michael Toyka-Seid
  • Revitalization of a tamed river : the Isar in Munich / Nico Döring and Georg Jochum
  • Union is a raging river, or remembering Fez as the river remembers / Shelley Hornstein.

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