Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott
Part I. Rivers Controlled: Cities and Their Watersheds
Chapter 1. Rivers, Industrial Cities, and Hinterland Production in Quebec in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Stéphane Castonguay
Chapter 2. The Seine as a Parisian River: Its Imprint, Its Ascendancy, and Its Mutual Dependencies in the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century / Sabine Barles
Chapter 3. Watershed Democracy or Ecological Hinterland? London and the Thames River Basin, 1857–1989 / Vanessa Taylor
Part II. Urban Rivers Transformed and Lost
Chapter 4. The City Whose Rivers Disappeared: Nantes, 1850–1950 / Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud
Chapter 5. The New Cuyahoga: Straightening Cleveland’s Crooked River / David Stradling
Chapter 6. A “Slum River”: The Unequal Urbanization of Bogotá (Colombia) and the Transformation of the Tunjuelo River in the Twentieth Century / Vladimir Sánchez-Calderón
Chapter 7. Urbanizing a River in a Bicultural Border Region: Strasbourg and the Upper Rhine on the Way to Water Modernity, 1789–1925 / Christoph Bernhardt
Chapter 8. Path Dependencies Managing the River Elbe and the Requirements of Hamburg’s Open Tidal Seaport / Dirk Schubert
Part III. Cultural Dimensions of Urban Rivers
Chapter 9. Rivers as Prisms of Urban Imagining: Eastern Sichuan Work Songs / Igor Iwo Chabrowski
Chapter 10. The Ganges as an Urban Sink: Urban Waste and River Flow in Colonial India in the Nineteenth Century / Awadhendra Sharan
Chapter 11. Polluted Thames, Declining City: London as an Ecosystem in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend / Agnes Kneitz
Chapter 12. Living on the River over the Year: The Significance of the Neva to Imperial Saint Petersburg / Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus
Part IV. Rivers Regained
Chapter 13. “A Ridiculous Failure of Government”: The Chicago River in the Age of Ecology / Harold L. Platt
Chapter 14. Shared Waters, Shared Conceptions? Two Cities on the River Rhine on the Long and Winding Road to Urban Sustainability / Michael Toyka-Seid
Chapter 15. Revitalization of a Tamed River: The Isar in Munich / Nico Döring and Georg Jochum
Chapter 16. Union Is a Raging River, or Remembering Fez as the River Remembers / Shelley Hornstein
Notes
List of Contributors
Index