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Bassins hydrographiques. --- Watersheds. --- Approvisionnement urbain en eau. --- Municipal water supply.

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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities' locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. Conventional arrangements for understanding and managing water in cities are being subverted by a range of natural, technological, political, economic and social changes. The prognosis for water in cities remains unclear, and multiple visions and discourses are emerging to fill the space left by the certainty of nineteenth century urban water planning and engineering. This book documents a sample of those different trajectories, in terms of water transformations, option, services and politics. Water is a key element shaping urban form, economies and lifestyles, part of the ongoing transformation of cities. Cities are faced with a range of technical and policy options for future water systems. Water is an essential urban service, but models of provision remain highly contested with different visions for ownership of infrastructure, the scale of provision, and the level of service demanded by users. Water is a contentious political issue in the future of cities, serving different urban interests as power and water seem to flow in the same direction. Cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America provide case studies and emerging water challenges and responses. Comparison across different contexts demonstrates how the particular and the universal intersect in complex ways to generate new trajectories for urban water. [Publisher]

Municipal water supply --- Urban landscape architecture --- City planning. --- Approvisionnement urbain en eau. --- Paysage urbain --- Design urbain.

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Water-supply --- History --- Rome --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Water-supply. --- Rome (Empire) --- Approvisionnement urbain en eau --- Gestion des ressources en eau --- Congresses. --- Water-supply - Rome - History - Congresses --- Rome - Antiquities - Congresses

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"Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies-how they worked, what uses the water served-and also the social rifts that created struggles over access to this basic necessity. Mindful of theoretical questions about what hastens technological change and how society and technology mutually influence one another, the author supplies a thoughtful and instructive study. Archeological, historical, and literary evidence vividly depicts those who designed, constructed, and used medieval water systems and demonstrates a shift from a public-administrative to a private-innovative framework-one that argues for the importance of local initiatives. " [Publisher]

Water-supply engineering --- Municipal water supply --- Monasteries --- Waterworks --- Middle Ages --- Moyen Age --- History --- Water-supply --- Histoire --- Middle Ages. --- History. --- Approvisionnement en eau --- Approvisionnement urbaine en eau --- Monastères --- Service des eaux --- Technique --- Histoire. --- Approvisionnement urbain en eau --- Monastères

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The urban waterfront is widely regarded as a frontier of contemporary urban development, attracting both investment and publicity. City, Capital and Water provides a detailed account of the redevelopment of urban waterfronts in nine cities around the world: London, Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka, Hong Kong, Sydney, Toronto, Dublin and Amsterdam. The case studies cover different frameworks for development in terms of the role of planning, approaches to financing, partnership agreements, state sponsorship and development profits. The analysis also demonstrates the effects of economic globalization, deregulation, the marginalization of planning and the manipulation of development processes by property and political interests.

Urban renewal --- Waterfronts --- Rénovation urbaine --- Case studies. --- Cas, Etudes de --- Ville portuaire --- Port --- Case studies --- Londres --- Dublin --- Sydney --- Hong Kong --- Tokyo --- Osaka --- Kobe --- Toronto --- Amsterdam --- Rénovation urbaine --- Hong Kong (Chine) --- Approvisionnement urbain en eau. --- Urban renewal - Case studies --- Waterfronts - Case studies