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The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam
Kimberley Kinder
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Description for The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; RGB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbours, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change the meaning of wet urban spaces. In The Politics of Urban Water, Kimberley Kinder explores how active residents in Amsterdam deployed their cityscape when rallying around these concerns, turning space into a vehicle for social reform.
While market dynamics certainly contributed to the ... Read more
Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbours, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change the meaning of wet urban spaces. In The Politics of Urban Water, Kimberley Kinder explores how active residents in Amsterdam deployed their cityscape when rallying around these concerns, turning space into a vehicle for social reform.
While market dynamics certainly contributed to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820347943
SKU
V9780820347943
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About Kimberley Kinder
Kimberley Kinder is assistant professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan, USA.
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