Title & Author:

Urban rivers : remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and North America / edited by Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden.

Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012.

Description:

ix, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

History of the urban environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

"Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in floodplains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interacted from the seventeenth century to the present." From Amazon.

ISBN:

9780822961857 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822961857 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Europa
City planning Europe.
City planning North America.
Rivers Economic aspects Europe.
Rivers Economic aspects North America.
City planning.
Rivers Economic aspects.
Fluss
Stadt
Wasserstraße
Urbanisme Europe.
Urbanisme Amérique du Nord.
Stadsplanering.
Floder ekonomiska aspekter.
Europe.
North America.
Nordamerika
Watershed management Manitoba History 20th century.
Prairies, Rivière des (Région de Montréal, Québec)
Saint Lawrence River

Added entries:

Castonguay, Stéphane.
Evenden, Matthew D. (Matthew Dominic), 1971-
Dagenais, Michèle, 1957- Rivière des Prairies.
Robert, Jean-Claude, 1943- St. Lawrence and Montreal's spatial development in the seventeenth through the twentieth century.
Stunden Bower, Shannon, 1977- To harmonize human activity with the laws of nature.
History of the urban environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278461
Call No.: BIB 214031
Status: Available