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Cities & Rivers

Author : Iñaki Alday
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638401535
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Cities & Rivers written by Iñaki Alday and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of architecture, landscape and urbanism works from aldayjover | architecture and landscape, an office based in Barcelona, Spain and Virginia in the United States. A collection of projects -- designed from their local and territorial DNA -- that respond in new ways to the global socio-ecological crisis in which we have been in engaged with since the beginning of the 21st century. Featured works include public spaces, architecture and urban studies that incorporate natural dynamics and that also emphasize -- recovering in some cases -- legal access among all citizens and equal access to the city and its opportunities. The works presented are particularly renowned given their leadership role in a new approach to the relationship between cities and rivers, in which natural dynamics become part of the public space, eliminating the effect of “catastrophe”.

River Cities, City Rivers

Author : Thaisa Way
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884024255
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book River Cities, City Rivers written by Thaisa Way and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history--shaping the development of urban landscapes and altering ecologies. Yet we have rarely given these urban landscapes their due. River Cities, City Rivers explores how such histories have shaped the present and how they might inform our visions of the future.

Urban Rivers

Author : Stephane Castonguay
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082297794X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Urban Rivers written by Stephane Castonguay and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. 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.

Rivers in History

Author : Christof Mauch
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973413
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Rivers in History written by Christof Mauch and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008-07-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle of Western civilization, and served as physical and psychological boundaries among nations. Rivers have become a crux of transportation, industry, and commerce. They have been loved as nurturing providers, nationalist symbols, and the source of romantic lore but also loathed as sites of conflict and natural disaster.Rivers in History presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers. They view this dynamic relationship through political, cultural, industrial, social, and ecological perspectives in national and transnational settings. As integral sources of food and water, local and international transportation, recreation, and aesthetic beauty, rivers have dictated where cities have risen, and in times of flooding, drought, and war, where they've fallen. Modern Western civilizations have sought to control rivers by channeling them for irrigation, raising and lowering them in canal systems, and damming them for power generation. Contributors analyze the regional, national, and international politicization of rivers, the use and treatment of waterways in urban versus rural environments, and the increasing role of international commissions in ecological and commercial legislation for the protection of river resources. Case studies include the Seine in Paris, the Mississippi, the Volga, the Rhine, and the rivers of Pittsburgh. Rivers in History is a broad environmental history of waterways that makes a major contribution to the study, preservation, and continued sustainability of rivers as vital lifelines of Western culture.

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained

Author : Martin Knoll
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981599
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained written by Martin Knoll and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.

Restoring Streams in Cities

Author : Ann L. Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Restoring Streams in Cities written by Ann L. Riley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann L. Riley describes an interdisciplinary approach to stream management that does not attempt to control streams, but rather considers the stream as a feature in the urban environment. She presents a logical sequence of land-use planning, site design, and watershed restoration measures along with stream channel modifications and floodproofing strategies that can be used in place of destructive and expensive public works projects. She features examples of effective and environmentally sensitive bank stabilization and flood damage reduction projects, with information on both the planning processes and end results. Chapters provide: history of urban stream management and restoration; information on federal programs, technical assistance, and funding opportunities; and in-depth guidance on implementing projects: collecting watershed and stream channel data, installing revegetation projects, protecting buildings from overbank stream flows.

River.Space.Design

Author : Martin Prominski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3034611730
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book River.Space.Design written by Martin Prominski and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban riverbanks are attractive locations and highly prized recreational environments. The designs of urban river landscapes must fulfill a broad range of requirements: flood control, open space design, and ecology are as a rule the three dominant themes, and they must often be reconciled within a very restricted space. The river must be understood as a process: governed by changing water levels, shifting seasons, erosion, and sedimentation, the river environment is not a static entity but constantly changing—the design must be flexible and take this into account. This book is the product of a multi-year study that subjected more than fifty Western European projects to a comparative analysis. The result is a systematic catalog of effective strategies and innovative design elements. First, designers and planners are given an overview of the broad and varied spectrum of design possibilities. The book’s process-oriented approach is especially helpful where the focus is on long-term, sustainable measures. The publication consists of two linked volumes that enable the reader to consult the systematic catalog and the case study section side by side. The easy-to-navigate structure and an extensive glossary provide further guidance, while the work’s highly distinctive design makes it visually appealing as well and invites the reader to leaf through and explore it.

Handbook of Cities and Networks

Author : Neal, Zachary P.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178811471X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Cities and Networks written by Neal, Zachary P. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine, it offers a varied set of collaborations, highlighting different theoretical, historical and methodological perspectives.

River Town

Author : Peter Hessler
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062028987
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book River Town written by Peter Hessler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable book, this memoir by a journalist who lived in a small city in China is “a vivid and touching tribute to a place and its people” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society. Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be. “This touching memoir of an American dropped into the center of China transcends the boundaries of the travel genre and will appeal to anyone wanting to learn more about the heart and soul of the Chinese people. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal “This is a colorful memoir from a Peace Corps volunteer who came away with more understanding of the Chinese than any foreign traveler has a right to expect.” —Booklist

The Water Environment of Cities

Author : Lawrence A. Baker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387848916
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Water Environment of Cities written by Lawrence A. Baker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept for the Water Environment of Cities arose from a workshop “Green 1 Cities, Blue Waters” workshop held in 2006. The workshop assembled experts from engineering, planning, economics, law, hydrology, aquatic ecology, geom- phology, and other disciplines to present research ?ndings and identify key new ideas on the urban water environment. At a lunch discussion near the end of the workshop, several of us came to the recognition that despite having considerable expertise in a narrow discipline, none of us had a vision of the “urban water en- ronment” as a whole. We were, as in the parable, blind men at opposite ends of the elephant, knowinga great deal about the parts, but notunderstandingthe whole. We quickly recognized the need to develop a book that would integrate this knowledge to create this vision. The goal was to develop a book that could be used to teach a complete, multidisciplinary course, “The Urban Water Environment”, but could also be used as a supplemental text for courses on urban ecosystems, urban design, landscapearchitecture,water policy,waterqualitymanagement andwatershed m- agement. The book is also valuable as a reference source for water professionals stepping outside their arena of disciplinary expertise. The Water Environment of Cities is the ?rst book to use a holistic, interdis- plinary approach to examine the urban water environment. We have attempted to portrayaholisticvisionbuiltaround theconcept of water as a coreelement ofcities. Water has multipleroles:municipalwatersupply,aquatichabitat,landscapeaesth- ics, and recreation. Increasingly, urban water is reused, serving multiple purposes.

Appleton's Illustrated Hand-book of American Travel

Author : Daniel Sidney Appleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Appleton's Illustrated Hand-book of American Travel written by Daniel Sidney Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography, for the Use of Schools

Author : Samuel Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography, for the Use of Schools written by Samuel Butler and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City

Author : Robert Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317793870
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City written by Robert Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.

A Geographical Index, Containing the Latin Names of the Principal Countries, Cities, Rivers, and Mountains Mentioned in the Greek and Roman Classics; ... Being a Supplement to the Summary of Ancient and Modern Geography. By Alexander Adam, ...

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Author : Alexander Adam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book A Geographical Index, Containing the Latin Names of the Principal Countries, Cities, Rivers, and Mountains Mentioned in the Greek and Roman Classics; ... Being a Supplement to the Summary of Ancient and Modern Geography. By Alexander Adam, ... written by Alexander Adam and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Universal History of the Nations of Antiquity

Author : Frederick Guest Tomlins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Universal History of the Nations of Antiquity written by Frederick Guest Tomlins and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Land, Water and Development

Author : Malcolm Newson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134732309
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Land, Water and Development written by Malcolm Newson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fully revised and expanded second edition of Malcolm Newson's acclaimed book. Exploring in greater depth the meaning of sustainability in river basin development this new edition: * highlights the rapid evolution of practical concepts since the Rio Earth Summit * features new illustrations and case studies from Australia, South Africa and Israel * makes the ecosystem model more explicit throughout * strengthens coverage of the linkages between land and water management.

The Ancient History of the Jews, and of the Minor Nations of Antiquity, Etc

Author : Jews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient History of the Jews, and of the Minor Nations of Antiquity, Etc written by Jews and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: