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Urban Rivers : Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden
- Industrialization and riverine transformations
- Brussels and its rivers, 1770-1880 : reshaping an urban landscape / Chloe Deligne
- The River Lea in West Ham : a river's role in shaping industrialization on the eastern edge of nineteenth-century London / Jim Clifford
- An urban industrial river : the multiple uses of the Akerselva River, 1850-1900 / Eyvind Bagle
- The riviere des Prairies : more than Montreal's backyard? / Michele Dagenais
- Urbanization and the functions of rivers
- The Seine and Parisian metabolism : growth of capital dependencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Sabine Barles
- The channelization of the Danube and urban spatial development in Vienna in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Gertrud Haidvogl
- Rivers and risk in the city : the urban floodplain as a contested space / Uwe Lubken
- The St. Lawrence and Montreal's spatial development in the seventeenth through the twentieth century / Jean-Claude Robert
- Urbanization, industrialization, and the firth of forth / T. C. Smout
- Territorialities of water management
- Diverting rivers for Paris, 1760-1820 : needs, quality, resistance / Frederic Graber
- Fluid geographies : urbanizing river basins / Craig E. Colten
- To harmonize human activity with the laws of nature : applying the watershed concept in Manitoba, Canada / Shannon Stunden Bower
- Conclusion / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden
- Contributors
- Notes
- Index.