Urban rivers :: remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and North America /

Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vien...

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Weitere Verfasser: Evenden, Matthew D. (Matthew Dominic), 1971-, Castonguay, Stéphane
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
Schriftenreihe:History of the urban environment Urban rivers
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Zusammenfassung:Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (256 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:082297794X
9780822977940

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