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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. |
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9780822981596 (electronic bk.) |
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0822981599 (electronic bk.) |
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9780822944591 |
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0822944596 |
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