Broschiertes Buch

Urban Rivers

Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America

Herausgeber: Castonguay, Stephane; Evenden, Matthew

Beschreibung

Examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanisation spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, 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 interact from the seventeenth century to the present.

Autor

Stephane Castonguay (Editor) 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 (Editor) 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 Fraser River and coauthor of The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822961857
• ISBN-10: 0822961857
• Artikelnr.: 34567399