• Urban rivers : remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and NorthAmerica
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and NorthAmerica
    [NT 47354] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: EvendenMatthew D., 1971-
    [NT 47354] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: CastonguayStephane,
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Pittsburgh, Pa.
    [NT 47263] Published: University of Pittsburgh Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2012
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (256 p.).
    [NT 47298] Series: History of the urban environment
    [NT 47266] Subject: Rivers - Economic aspects - North America -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Rivers - Economic aspects - Europe -
    [NT 47266] Subject: City planning - North America -
    [NT 47266] Subject: City planning - Europe -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780822977940/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780822977940electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 082297794Xelectronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780822961857pbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0822961857pbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden --Industrialization and riverine transformations -- Brussels and its rivers, 1770-1880 : reshaping anurban landscape / Chloe Deligne -- The River Lea in West Ham : a river's role in shaping industrialization on the eastern edge of nineteenth-century London / Jim Clifford -- An urban industrial river: the multiple uses of the Akerselva River, 1850-1900 / Eyvind Bagle -- The riviere des Prairies : more than Montreal's backyard? / Michele Dagenais -- Urbanization and the functions of rivers -- TheSeine and Parisian metabolism : growth of capital dependencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / SabineBarles -- The channelization of the Danube and urban spatial development in Vienna in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Gertrud Haidvogl -- Rivers and risk in the city : theurban floodplain as a contested space / Uwe Lubken -- The St. Lawrence and Montreal's spatial development in the seventeenth through the twentieth century / Jean-Claude Robert -- Urbanization, industrialization, and the firth of forth / T. C. Smout -- Territorialities of water management -- Diverting rivers for Paris, 1760-1820 : needs, quality, resistance / Frederic Graber -- Fluid geographies :urbanizing river basins / Craig E. Colten -- To harmonize human activity with the laws of nature : applying the watershed concept in Manitoba, Canada / Shannon Stunden Bower -- Conclusion / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index
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