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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knoll, Martin, editor.

Lübken, Uwe, editor.

Schott, Dieter, editor.

Series:

History of the urban environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rivers--Social aspects--History.

Rivers.

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

History.

City and town life--History.

City and town life.

City planning--Environmental aspects--History.

City planning.

Rivers--Regulation--History.

Waterways--History.

Waterways.

Floodplain management--History.

Floodplain management.

Social change--History.

Social change.

Landscape changes--History.

Landscape changes.

Stream restoration--History.

Stream restoration.

Rivers--Regulation.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-401) and index.

ISBN:

9780822944591

0822944596

OCLC:

951158158

Publisher Number:

99972038652