Contributor
Knoll, Martin, editor of compilation.
Imprint:Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Descriptionix, 413 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction / Martin Knoll, Uwe Lubken, 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 / Stephane 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 / Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud -- The New Cuyahoga : Straightening Cleveland's Crooked River / David Stradling -- A "Slum River" : The Unequal Urbanization of Bogota (Colombia) and the Transformation of the Tunjuelo River in the Twentieth Century / Vladimir Sanchez-Calderon -- 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 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 V. 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 Rhine Cities 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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.
