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Urban Rivers: Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)
Stephane Castonguay
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Description for Urban Rivers: Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)
Paperback. Editor(s): Castonguay, Stephane; Evenden, Matthew. Series: History of the Urban Environment. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JPQB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 floodplains, 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 interacted from the seventeenth century to the present.
Rising cities and industries were great agents of social and ecological changes, particularly during the nineteenth century, when mass populations and their effluents were introduced to river environments. Accumulated pollution and disease mandated the transfer of wastes ... Read more
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 floodplains, 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 interacted from the seventeenth century to the present.
Rising cities and industries were great agents of social and ecological changes, particularly during the nineteenth century, when mass populations and their effluents were introduced to river environments. Accumulated pollution and disease mandated the transfer of wastes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
History of the Urban Environment
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822961857
SKU
V9780822961857
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About Stephane Castonguay
Stéphane Castonguay is Canada Research Chair in Environmental History at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and coeditor of Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal. Matthew Evenden is an associate professor in the department of geography and chair of Canadian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the ... Read more
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