River Cities, City Rivers
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: Jun 04, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780884024255
Description: "Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can shape a city's success or cause its destruction. At the same time, city-building reshapes rivers and their landscapes. Cities have harnessed, modified, and engineered rivers, altering ecologies and creating new landscapes in the process of urbanization. Rivers are also shaped by the development of cities as urban landscapes, just as the cities are shaped by their relationship to the river. In the river city, the city river is a dynamic contributor to the urban landscape with its flow of urban economies, geographies, and cultures. Yet we have rarely given these urban landscapes their due. Building on emerging interest in the resilience of cities, this book and the original symposium consider river cities and city rivers to explore how histories have shaped the present and how they might inform our visions of the future."--
Notes: Source title: River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture)