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Urban Rivers - Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America (Paperback)
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Urban Rivers - Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America (Paperback)
Series: History of the Urban Environment
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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 away from population centers. In
many cases, potable water for cities now had to be drawn from
distant sites. These developments required significant
infrastructural improvements, creating social conflicts over land
jurisdiction and affecting the lives and livelihood of nonurban
populations. The effective reach of cities extended and urban space
was remade. By the mid-twentieth century, new technologies and
specialists emerged to combat the effects of industrialization.
Gradually, the health of urban rivers improved. From
protoindustrial fisheries, mills, and transportation networks,
through industrial hydroelectric plants and sewage systems, to
postindustrial reclamation and recreational use, Urban Rivers
documents how Western societies dealt with the needs of mass
populations while maintaining the viability of their natural
resources. The lessons drawn from this study will be particularly
relevant to today's emerging urban economies situated along rivers
and waterways.
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