Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden
Industrialization and riverine transformations
Brussels and its rivers, 1770-1880 : reshaping an urban landscape / Chloe Deligne
The River Lea in West Ham : a river's role in shaping industrialization on the eastern edge of nineteenth-century London / Jim Clifford
An urban industrial river : the multiple uses of the Akerselva River, 1850-1900 / Eyvind Bagle
The riviere des Prairies : more than Montreal's backyard? / Michele Dagenais
Urbanization and the functions of rivers
The Seine and Parisian metabolism : growth of capital dependencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Sabine Barles
The channelization of the Danube and urban spatial development in Vienna in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Gertrud Haidvogl
Rivers and risk in the city : the urban floodplain as a contested space / Uwe Lubken
The St. Lawrence and Montreal's spatial development in the seventeenth through the twentieth century / Jean-Claude Robert
Urbanization, industrialization, and the firth of forth / T. C. Smout
Territorialities of water management
Diverting rivers for Paris, 1760-1820 : needs, quality, resistance / Frederic Graber
Fluid geographies : urbanizing river basins / Craig E. Colten
To harmonize human activity with the laws of nature : applying the watershed concept in Manitoba, Canada / Shannon Stunden Bower
Conclusion / Stephane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden
Contributors
Notes
Index.