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

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961857
• ISBN13: 9780822961857
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.2"