River cities : city rivers / Thaïsa Way, editor.

"Building on emerging interests in the resilience of cities, this book and the symposium it represents considers river cities and city rivers to explore how histories have shaped the present, and how they might inform our visions of the future. Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout hist...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture Washington, D.C.
Dumbarton Oaks (Host institution)
Other Authors: Way, Thaïsa, 1960- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2018]
Edition:First hardcover.
Series:Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the history of landscape architecture ; XXXIX
Subjects:
Rivers > Social aspects > Congresses.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Congresses.
City planning > Environmental aspects > Congresses.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Genre:
Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:xi, 405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Contents:
  • River cities, city rivers / Thaïsa Way
  • Flood adaptive landscapes of cities in the lower Yellow River floodplain, China / Lei Zhang
  • The soft-core city : ancient Rome and the wandering Tiber / Rabun Taylor
  • Lyon : the meaning of a river city / Michael B. Miller
  • Revisiting the Darya (river) urbanism in the Delhi triangle : the urbanization of the Yamuna in the Mughal Badshahi Shahar (imperial city), Shahjahanabad / Jyoti Pandey Sharma
  • Dynamic agropolis : the case of Allahabad, India / Anthony R. Acciavatti
  • Willful waters : the Los Angeles River / Vittoria Di Palma and Alexander Robinson
  • New Orleans, delta city / Elizabeth Mossop and Carol McMichael Reese
  • River landscapes of São Paulo : Várze and Piscinés, a strange landscape / Brian Davis and Amelia Jensen
  • Landscape narratives and the San Antonio River / David Malda
  • Don't go near the water! Reimagining China's urban waterfronts / Edith Katz with Ceylan Belek Ombregt
  • Responsive tributary : the changing spaces of a tertiary waterway in Vienna's urban periphery / Kimberly Thornton
  • Complexity and continuity in the transformation of Pittsburgh's rivers and riverfronts / Ray Gastil
  • The Los Angeles River : projects and perspectives from a private practice / Mia Lehrer and Claire Latan
  • New landscapes for Dutch river cities / Pieter Schengenga.