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Urban Water Trajectories (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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Urban Water Trajectories (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Future City, 6
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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes
cities' locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The
changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity,
environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that
the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that
have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly
infeasible. Conventional arrangements for understanding and
managing water in cities are being subverted by a range of natural,
technological, political, economic and social changes. The
prognosis for water in cities remains unclear, and multiple visions
and discourses are emerging to fill the space left by the certainty
of nineteenth century urban water planning and engineering.This
book documents a sample of those different trajectories, in terms
of water transformations, option, services and politics. Water is a
key element shaping urban form, economies and lifestyles, part of
the ongoing transformation of cities. Cities are faced with a range
of technical and policy options for future water systems. Water is
an essential urban service, but models of provision remain highly
contested with different visions for ownership of infrastructure,
the scale of provision, and the level of service demanded by users.
Water is a contentious political issue in the future of cities,
serving different urban interests as power and water seem to flow
in the same direction. Cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe
and South America provide case studies and emerging water
challenges and responses. Comparison across different contexts
demonstrates how the particular and the universal intersect in
complex ways to generate new trajectories for urban water.
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