Illustrations ................................................. vii
Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Introduction .................................................... l
STÉPHANE CASTONGUAY AND MATTHEW EVENDEN
PART I. INDUSTRIALIZATION AND RIVERINE TRANSFORMATIONS
CHAPTER 1
Brussels and Its Rivers, 1770-1880: Reshaping an Urban
Landscape ...................................................... 17
CHLOÉ DELIGNE
CHAPTER 2
The River Lea in West Ham: A River's Role in Shaping
Industrialization on the Eastern Edge of Nineteenth-Century
London ......................................................... 34
JIM CLIFFORD
CHAPTER 3
An Urban Industrial River: The Multiple Uses of the Akerselva
River, 1850—1900 ............................................... 57
EYVIND BAGLE
CHAPTER 4
The Riviere des Prairies: More than Montreal's Backyard? ....... 75
MICHÈLE DAGENAIS
PART II. URBANIZATION AND THE FUNCTIONS OF RIVERS
CHAPTER 5
The Seine and Parisian Metabolism: Growth of Capital
Dependencies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ......... 95
SABINE BARLES
CHAPTER 6
The Channelization of the Danube and Urban Spatial
Development in Vienna in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries ..................................................... 113
GERTRUD HAIDVOGL
CHAPTER 7
Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as
a Contested Space ............................................. 130
UWE LÜBKEN
CHAPTER 8
The St. Lawrence and Montreal's Spatial Development in the
Seventeenth through the Twentieth Century ..................... 145
JEAN-CLAUDE ROBERT
CHAPTER 9
Urbanization, Industrialization, and the Firth of Forth ....... 160
T.C. SMOUT
PART III. TERRITORIALITIES DF WATER MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 10
Diverting Rivers for Paris, 1760-1820: Needs, Quality,
Resistance .................................................... 183
FRÉDÉRIC GRABER
CHAPTER 11
Fluid Geographies: Urbanizing River Basins .................... 201
CRAIG E. COLTEN
CHAPTER 12
To Harmonize Human Activity with the Laws of Nature:
Applying the Watershed Concept in Manitoba, Canada ............ 219
SHANNON STUNDEN BOWER
Conclusion .................................................... 237
STÉPHANE CASTONGUAY AND MATTHEW EVENDEN
Notes ......................................................... 243
Contributors .................................................. 291
Index ......................................................... 295
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