ABSTRACT
Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world’s largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements – given life through the space of the local waterscape – soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural landscape. Theorised via a sophisticated understanding of history, space, culture, and ecology, this collection of wonderful and deliberately wide-ranging case studies, from Early Modern Italy to the contemporary Bengal Delta, investigates the culture of human interaction with rivers and the nature of urban topography. Riverine explores the ways in which architecture and urban planning have imbued cultural landscapes with ritual and structural meaning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section One|56 pages
Ensembles
chapter |9 pages
From Bishops’ Inns to private palaces
chapter |8 pages
Revealing the lost rivers to re-shape Paris
part Excursus One|9 pages
Waterloo Sunrise
part Excursus Two|7 pages
Along the river Temo in Bosa, Sardinia
section Section Two|60 pages
Topoi
chapter |13 pages
Building rivers
part Excursus Three|8 pages
Fleeting memories
section Section Three|69 pages
Meanings
part Excursus Four|13 pages
Metropolitan riverine