Water in the making of a socio-natural landscape : Rome and its surroundings, 1870-1922 / Salvatore Valenti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valenti, Salvatore, 1943- author.

Series:

Routledge advances in urban history.

Routledge advances in urban history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water resources development--Italy--Rome--History.

Water resources development.

Water-supply--Italy--Rome--History.

Water-supply.

Water and civilization--Italy--Rome--History.

Water and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome. It merges local water management with national water policies aimed at promoting irrigated agriculture, industrial processes, and public health. It investigates perceptions and conceptualisations of water, changes in the water law, engineering projects, medical knowledge and practices, value of water in different productions, and needs and uses of local stakeholders. From which derives that water infrastructures are the complex outcome of the clash between different users and uses of water as well as the dynamic interaction between different levels of power. In this book, it builds upon Maria Kaika's Cities of flows and Erik Swyngedouw's Liquid power to introduce a new dimension to the analysis of urban water: the interaction among the three main uses of water: drinking, agriculture, and industry. Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape is written for a specialist readership with an interest in environmental and urban history and science and technology studies, but it can also be used by graduate and PhD students"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Water, a neglected topic in the histories of modern Rome

Taming water: a national enterprise

Looking for an approach to the nature-society interactions

Water, Roman area, and the making of the space: an analytic proposal

Notes

References

Chapter 1: Water, experts, and modernity

Risorgimento or the Italian path(s) towards modernisation

Physical and moral regeneration: water in the medical debate

Physical and material regeneration: Engineers at the conquest of modernity

Redeeming Rome and its surroundings

Conflicting water modernity

Conclusion

Archival sources

Official documents

Printed primary sources

Literature

Chapter 2: Mapping, engineering, law, and the struggle for water control in the Roman area

The conceptualisation of water as a 'natural resource' in late nineteenth-century surveys

The Roman surroundings

Engineering water: local communities between historical uses and the dream of modernity

The Villoresi Canal and the Milanese area

Defining water: local disputes and the making of the Italian water law

Chapter 3: Water, health, and disease

Doctors in the state

Medical perception of water and Asiatic cholera in the mid-nineteenth century

The waters of Rome

Monitoring, improving, and spreading water supply

Social medicine and water provision

Water, malaria, and the colonisation of the Agro Romano

Chapter 4: The value of water.

Reconnecting Rome to its ancient water veins: archaeological or commercial enterprise?

Public needs, private profits: a difficult coexistence

The rent of water in the countryside

Chapter 5: Water uses and the making of a new socio-natural landscape: The growth of Southeast Rome

Water and migration

Water in the birth of an industrial district

The waste side of water: poor environmental quality and popular housing

'Unruly' water and self-built neighbourhoods

Chapter 6: Euro-Mediterranean socio-natural trajectories

National rebirth and social question

Liberalising and reconceptualising water

The waters of Madrid and Athens

Water between public service and private profits

Agency from below: private uses of water and the creation of mixed landscapes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Valenti, Salvatore Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape

ISBN:

1-00-325442-X

1-003-25442-X

1-000-72102-7

9781003254423

OCLC:

1336407733