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Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
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International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2017
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Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada. They add... more Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada. They address the spatially differentiated character of energy modernization and the role of consumers in creating new energy spaces. In doing so, they reflect on how the past can inform current debates about the transition to sustainable consumption.
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International Journal of Maritime History, 2014
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Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of e... more Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.
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Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of e... more Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments.
The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.
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Journal of Historical …, Jan 1, 2009
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Free full text online: This introduction places the authors’ contributions in the context of chan... more Free full text online: This introduction places the authors’ contributions in the context of changes and recurring tensions across the period from 1960 to today. It reviews relevant literature and includes a brief overview of policy and political debates relating to the Thames during this period.
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Full text available at Taylor & Francis Online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/17496... more Full text available at Taylor & Francis Online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1749632215Y.0000000006
This article investigates London's relationship with its neighbours downstream in the lower Thames estuary since 1960 as a problem of governance. It considers in detail tensions and rivalries amongst London-based authorities controlling pollution and waste transfer — especially the Port of London Authority, London County Council and Greater London Council — and authorities and civil society groups in the lower estuary during the 1960s and 1970s. In the light of connections between the river's management and its dominant functions at the start of this period (the port and sewerage), it explores changing forms of governance and wider political debates during three phases: an era of function-led management and environmental degradation of the tidal Thames up to the 1960s; political and environmental conflicts in the 1970s over metropolitan attempts to expand into riverside areas downstream; reform of river and water governance since the 1970s and 1980s with the emergence of river-basin management, privatization and EU regulatory environmentalism.
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The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.
Book Reviews by Vanessa Taylor
Journal Articles by Vanessa Taylor
This article investigates London's relationship with its neighbours downstream in the lower Thames estuary since 1960 as a problem of governance. It considers in detail tensions and rivalries amongst London-based authorities controlling pollution and waste transfer — especially the Port of London Authority, London County Council and Greater London Council — and authorities and civil society groups in the lower estuary during the 1960s and 1970s. In the light of connections between the river's management and its dominant functions at the start of this period (the port and sewerage), it explores changing forms of governance and wider political debates during three phases: an era of function-led management and environmental degradation of the tidal Thames up to the 1960s; political and environmental conflicts in the 1970s over metropolitan attempts to expand into riverside areas downstream; reform of river and water governance since the 1970s and 1980s with the emergence of river-basin management, privatization and EU regulatory environmentalism.
Conference Proceedings by Vanessa Taylor
Book Chapters by Vanessa Taylor
The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.
This article investigates London's relationship with its neighbours downstream in the lower Thames estuary since 1960 as a problem of governance. It considers in detail tensions and rivalries amongst London-based authorities controlling pollution and waste transfer — especially the Port of London Authority, London County Council and Greater London Council — and authorities and civil society groups in the lower estuary during the 1960s and 1970s. In the light of connections between the river's management and its dominant functions at the start of this period (the port and sewerage), it explores changing forms of governance and wider political debates during three phases: an era of function-led management and environmental degradation of the tidal Thames up to the 1960s; political and environmental conflicts in the 1970s over metropolitan attempts to expand into riverside areas downstream; reform of river and water governance since the 1970s and 1980s with the emergence of river-basin management, privatization and EU regulatory environmentalism.