Urban rivers
Subtitle: remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and North America
By: edited by Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden
Series: History of the urban environment
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822961857
Subjects: City planning; Rivers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden; title: Industrialization and riverine transformations; title: Brussels and its rivers, 1770-1880 : reshaping an urban landscape / Chloe Deligne; title: The River Lea in West Ham : a river's role in shaping industrialization on the eastern edge of nineteenth-century London / Jim Clifford; title: An urban industrial river : the multiple uses of the Akerselva River, 1850-1900 / Eyvind Bagle; title: The riviere des Prairies : more than Montreal's backyard? / Michele Dagenais; title: Urbanization and the functions of rivers; title: The Seine and Parisian metabolism : growth of capital dependencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Sabine Barles; title: The channelization of the Danube and urban spatial development in Vienna in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Gertrud Haidvogl; title: Rivers and risk in the city : the urban floodplain as a contested space / Uwe Lubken; title: The St. Lawrence and Montreal's spatial development in the seventeenth through the twentieth century / Jean-Claude Robert; title: Urbanization, industrialization, and the firth of forth / T. C. Smout; title: Territorialities of water management; title: Diverting rivers for Paris, 1760-1820 : needs, quality, resistance / Frederic Graber; title: Fluid geographies : urbanizing river basins / Craig E. Colten; title: To harmonize human activity with the laws of nature : applying the watershed concept in Manitoba, Canada / Shannon Stunden Bower; title: Conclusion / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden; title: Contributors; title: Notes; title: Index.