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River Cities: Historical and Contemporary (review)

River Cities: Historical and Contemporary (review) Conference Reviews RIVER CITIES: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPOR ARY The call for papers cast the symposium in terms of resilience and adaptability, highlighting cities’ and 2015 Dumbarton Oaks Symposium in Garden and rivers’ dynamic relationships. However, other themes Landscape Studies emerged: changing and competing river narratives May 8–9, 2015 and images; power—the power of rivers and the power of political bodies seeking to control them; and Reviewed by Brenda J. Brown “All cities are river cities.” the interplay of rivers’ natural systems and humans’ That assertion, made—and dismissed—at this changing technologies and economies. Most presenta- symposium, is certainly false. It is true nonetheless tions focused on one city—Los Angeles, Lyon, New that many cities are river cities, especially if a river Orleans, Pittsburgh, Rome, San Antonio, São Paulo, city is defi ned as one that evolved beside and because Vienna; some on two—Agra and Allahabad, Kampen of a river—or two or more rivers’ juncture. Rivers and Nijmegen, Zigong and the nascent Guangzhou have long been vital to trade, travel, and agricultural megacity. Several talks acknowledged larger water- and industrial production, their fl oods benefi cent and sheds; a few really did concern larger regions. Rivers’ destructive, their waters sacred and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land University of Wisconsin Press

River Cities: Historical and Contemporary (review)

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Conference Reviews RIVER CITIES: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPOR ARY The call for papers cast the symposium in terms of resilience and adaptability, highlighting cities’ and 2015 Dumbarton Oaks Symposium in Garden and rivers’ dynamic relationships. However, other themes Landscape Studies emerged: changing and competing river narratives May 8–9, 2015 and images; power—the power of rivers and the power of political bodies seeking to control them; and Reviewed by Brenda J. Brown “All cities are river cities.” the interplay of rivers’ natural systems and humans’ That assertion, made—and dismissed—at this changing technologies and economies. Most presenta- symposium, is certainly false. It is true nonetheless tions focused on one city—Los Angeles, Lyon, New that many cities are river cities, especially if a river Orleans, Pittsburgh, Rome, San Antonio, São Paulo, city is defi ned as one that evolved beside and because Vienna; some on two—Agra and Allahabad, Kampen of a river—or two or more rivers’ juncture. Rivers and Nijmegen, Zigong and the nascent Guangzhou have long been vital to trade, travel, and agricultural megacity. Several talks acknowledged larger water- and industrial production, their fl oods benefi cent and sheds; a few really did concern larger regions. Rivers’ destructive, their waters sacred and

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Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land – University of Wisconsin Press

Published: Mar 15, 2016

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