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Rivers lost, rivers regained : rethinking city-river relations, edited by Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott

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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 cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and discusses more recent strategies to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting"--Provided by publisher
  • "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 have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss 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 cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices"--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
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Extent
1 online resource (ix, 413 pages)
Contents
  • 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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9780822981596
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Rivers lost, rivers regained : rethinking city-river relations
Title
Rivers lost, rivers regained
Title remainder
rethinking city-river relations
Statement of responsibility
edited by Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "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 cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and discusses more recent strategies to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting"--Provided by publisher
  • "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 have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss 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 cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices"--Provided by publisher
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333.91/82091732
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  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
GB1205
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.R58 2017eb
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non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Knoll, Martin
  • Lübken, Uwe
  • Schott, Dieter
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History of the urban environment
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  • Rivers
  • Cities and towns
  • City and town life
  • City planning
  • Rivers
  • Waterways
  • Floodplain management
  • Social change
  • Landscape changes
  • Stream restoration
  • TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  • Cities and towns
  • City and town life
  • City planning
  • Floodplain management
  • Landscape changes
  • Rivers
  • Social change
  • Stream restoration
  • Waterways
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Rivers lost, rivers regained : rethinking city-river relations, edited by Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott
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Publication
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
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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1 online resource (ix, 413 pages)
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9780822981596
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Rivers lost, rivers regained : rethinking city-river relations, edited by Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
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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990046715
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1 online resource (ix, 413 pages)
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9780822981596
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illustrations, maps
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(OCoLC)990046715

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