Format:
IX, 302 S.
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Ill., Kt.
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24 cm
ISBN:
0822961857
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9780822961857
Series Statement:
History of the urban environment
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction
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Industrialization and riverine transformations ; Brussels and its rivers, 1770-1880 : reshaping an urban landscape
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The River Lea in West Ham : a river's role in shaping industrialization on the eastern edge of nineteenth-century London
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An urban industrial river : the multiple uses of the Akerselva River, 1850-1900
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The riviere des Prairies : more than Montreal's backyard?
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Urbanization and the functions of rivers ; The Seine and Parisian metabolism : growth of capital dependencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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The channelization of the Danube and urban spatial development in Vienna in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Rivers and risk in the city : the urban floodplain as a contested space
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The St. Lawrence and Montreal's spatial development in the seventeenth through the twentieth century
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Urbanization, industrialization, and the firth of forth
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Territorialities of water management ; Diverting rivers for Paris, 1760-1820 : needs, quality, resistance
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Fluid geographies : urbanizing river basins
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To harmonize human activity with the laws of nature : applying the watershed concept in Manitoba, Canada
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Conclusion
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Contributors ; Notes ; Index.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Urban rivers Pittsburgh, Pa. : Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2012 ISBN 9780822977940
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Europa
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Nordamerika
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Stadt
;
Fluss
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Wasserstraße
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Geschichte
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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