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River Cities, City Rivers

Thaïsa Way

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English
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
04 June 2018
Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Landscape art & architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture; Urban & municipal planning
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
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.
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Imprint:   Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   39
Dimensions:   Height: 267mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   1.497kg
ISBN:   9780884024255
ISBN 10:   0884024253
Series:   Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
Pages:   418
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Thaïsa Way is the Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Reviews for River Cities, City Rivers

A beguiling and fascinating book...with the look and feel of a coffee table book. Its oversized pages are populated with lithographs, maps, photos, and hand-drawn designs, enabling the reader to feel immersed within the stories of the cities and their rivers as they unfold alongside the text...The complex histories of great river cities such as those selected provokes the reader into asking what is next for urban spaces. -Mary Gearey, Environment, Space, Place


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