Rivers lost, rivers regained : rethinking city-river relations /
Rivers lost, rivers regained : rethinking city-river relations /
edited by Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (ix, 413 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- History of the urban environment .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Part I. Rivers controlled : cities and their watersheds. Rivers, industrial cities, and hinterland production in Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / The Seine as a Parisian river : its imprint, its ascendancy and its mutual dependencies in the eighteenth through the twentieth century / Watershed democracy or ecological hinterland? : London and the Thames River Basin, 1857-1989 / Part II. Urban rivers transformed and lost. The city whose rivers disappeared : Nantes, 1850-1950 / The new Cuyahoga : straightening Cleveland's crooked river / A "slum river" : the unequal urbanization of Bogotá (Colombia) and the transformation of the Tunjuelo River in the twentieth century / Urbanizing a river in a bicultural border region : Strasbourg and the upper Rhine on the way to water modernity, 1789-1925 / Path dependencies managing the River Elbe and the requirements of Hamburg's open tidal seaport / Part III. Cultural dimensions of urban rivers. Rivers as prisms of urban imagining : eastern Sichuan work songs / The Ganges as an urban sink : urban waste and river flow in colonial India in the nineteenth century / Polluted Thames, declining city : London as an ecosystem in Charles Dickens's Our mutual friend / Living on the river over the year : the significance of the Neva to imperial Saint Petersburg / Part IV. Rivers regained. "A ridiculous failure of government" : the Chicago River in the age of ecology / Shared waters, shared conceptions? : two cities on the river Rhine on the long and winding road to urban sustainability / Revitalization of a tamed river : the Isar in Munich / Union is a raging river, or remembering Fez as the river remembers / Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott -- Stéphane Castonguay -- Sabine Barles -- Vanessa Taylor -- Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud -- David Stradling -- Vladimir Sánchez-Calderón -- Christoph Bernhardt -- Dirk Schubert -- Igor Iwo Chabrowski -- Awadhendra Sharan -- Agnes Kneitz -- Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus -- Harold L. Platt -- Michael Toyka-Seid -- Nico Döring and Georg Jochum -- Shelley Hornstein.
"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.
9780822981596
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.
Electronic Books.
GB1205 / .R584 2017
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Part I. Rivers controlled : cities and their watersheds. Rivers, industrial cities, and hinterland production in Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / The Seine as a Parisian river : its imprint, its ascendancy and its mutual dependencies in the eighteenth through the twentieth century / Watershed democracy or ecological hinterland? : London and the Thames River Basin, 1857-1989 / Part II. Urban rivers transformed and lost. The city whose rivers disappeared : Nantes, 1850-1950 / The new Cuyahoga : straightening Cleveland's crooked river / A "slum river" : the unequal urbanization of Bogotá (Colombia) and the transformation of the Tunjuelo River in the twentieth century / Urbanizing a river in a bicultural border region : Strasbourg and the upper Rhine on the way to water modernity, 1789-1925 / Path dependencies managing the River Elbe and the requirements of Hamburg's open tidal seaport / Part III. Cultural dimensions of urban rivers. Rivers as prisms of urban imagining : eastern Sichuan work songs / The Ganges as an urban sink : urban waste and river flow in colonial India in the nineteenth century / Polluted Thames, declining city : London as an ecosystem in Charles Dickens's Our mutual friend / Living on the river over the year : the significance of the Neva to imperial Saint Petersburg / Part IV. Rivers regained. "A ridiculous failure of government" : the Chicago River in the age of ecology / Shared waters, shared conceptions? : two cities on the river Rhine on the long and winding road to urban sustainability / Revitalization of a tamed river : the Isar in Munich / Union is a raging river, or remembering Fez as the river remembers / Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott -- Stéphane Castonguay -- Sabine Barles -- Vanessa Taylor -- Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud -- David Stradling -- Vladimir Sánchez-Calderón -- Christoph Bernhardt -- Dirk Schubert -- Igor Iwo Chabrowski -- Awadhendra Sharan -- Agnes Kneitz -- Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus -- Harold L. Platt -- Michael Toyka-Seid -- Nico Döring and Georg Jochum -- Shelley Hornstein.
"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.
9780822981596
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.
Electronic Books.
GB1205 / .R584 2017