"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXXIX"--Page preceding title page. "Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "River Cities: Historical and Contemporary," held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., May 8-9, 2015.--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction: 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 Badshalii Shahar (Imperial City), Shahjahanabad / Jyoti Pandey Sharma -- Dynamic Agropolis: The Case of Allahabad, India / Anthony 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: Várzeas and Piscinões, 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 Latané -- New Landscapes for Dutch River Cities / Pieter Schengenga.
Summary:
"Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can shape a city's success or cause its destruction. At the same time, city-building reshapes rivers and their landscapes. Cities have harnessed, modified, and engineered rivers, altering ecologies and creating new landscapes in the process of urbanization. Rivers are also shaped by the development of cities as urban landscapes, just as the cities are shaped by their relationship to the river. In the river city, the city river is a dynamic contributor to the urban landscape with its flow of urban economies, geographies, and cultures. Yet we have rarely given these urban landscapes their due. Building on emerging interest in the resilience of cities, this book and the original symposium consider river cities and city rivers to explore how histories have shaped the present and how they might inform our visions of the future."-- Harvard University Press website.
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; XXXIX
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