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020 _a9780822977940
020 _a082297794X
020 _z9780822961857 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z0822961857
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_dBD-SySUS.
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050 0 0 _aHT169.E85
_bU73 2012
245 0 0 _aUrban rivers
_h[electronic resource] :
_bremaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and North America /
_cedited by Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden.
260 _aPittsburgh, Pa. :
_bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,
_c2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.)
490 0 _aHistory of the urban environment
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIllustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden -- Industrialization and riverine transformations -- Brussels and its rivers, 1770-1880 : reshaping an urban 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 -- The Seine and Parisian metabolism : growth of capital dependencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Sabine Barles -- 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 : the urban 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aRivers
_xEconomic aspects
_zNorth America.
650 0 _aRivers
_xEconomic aspects
_zEurope.
650 0 _aCity planning
_zNorth America.
650 0 _aCity planning
_zEurope.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aEvenden, Matthew D.
_q(Matthew Dominic),
_d1971-
700 1 _aCastonguay, Stephane.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780822977940/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c35346
_d35346