Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained : Rethinking City-River Relations /

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"Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schott, Dieter (Editor ), Lübken, Uwe (Editor ), Knoll, Martin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Waterways.
Stream restoration.
Social change.
Rivers > Regulation.
Landscape changes.
Floodplain management.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
City and town life.
Cities and towns.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > General.
Cours d'eau > Rehabilitation > Histoire.
Paysages > Modifications > Histoire.
Plaines inondables > Gestion > Histoire.
Voies navigables > Histoire.
Cours d'eau > Regularisation > Histoire.
Vie urbaine > Histoire.
Villes > Histoire.
Stream restoration > History.
Landscape changes > History.
Social change > History.
Floodplain management > History.
Waterways > History.
Rivers > Regulation > History.
City planning > Environmental aspects > History.
City and town life > History.
Cities and towns > History.
Rivers > Social aspects > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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 / Stephane 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 / Genevieve 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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