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From: "Uwe Lübken" <[log in to unmask]>
Rivers, Cities, Historical Interactions
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*Time***21 - 23 February 2013**
*Venue***Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft (IBZ),
Amalienstraße 38, 80799 Munich
*Conveners***Martin Knoll (Darmstadt Technical University), Uwe Lübken
(RCC), and Dieter Schott (Darmstadt Technical University)
*Abstract*The historical co-evolution of cities and rivers is a research
topic that requires both an urban and an environmental perspective.
Rivers have been essential to the foundation, growth, prosperity and
development of many major cities around the world. At the same time,
cities have considerably altered rivers and created their own hydraulic
regimes. Rivers perform a variety of fundamental functions for the
cities they touch, providing transport, energy, food, drinking water,
and sites of leisure. They are concurrently universal sinks for waste.
Rivers protect cities, as well as link cities to each other, attracting
traffic from far afield via natural fords or bridges. Whereas cities
tried to control and manage their rivers for centuries, these attempts
have never been fully successful due to the natural dynamics of rivers.
Enormous variations in water discharge due to frequent floods could
result in heavy damages to urban infrastructure and drinking water
contamination by pathogens transported from riverine landscapes, which
heavily affected urban populations.Focusing on cities in different world
regions, this conference will explore city-river relations as an
essential part of urban environmental history.***
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*Thursday 21 February***
*13:00 – 14:00**Welcome Reception at the Deutsches Museum***
*14:00 – 17:00**Isar Excursion***
**Presentation and guided walk along the Isar river by Nico Döring
(environmental consultant and founder of “Isar-Plan”) and Georg Jochum
(Deutsches Museum/Technical University Munich); proceed to the
conference venue (IBZ)
A River System between Natural Flow and Anthropogenic Changes:
The example of the Isar River in Munich
*17:00 – 17:15**Introduction***
Introductory remarks by RCC director and conference conveners
*17:15–18:45**Cities and their Watersheds I***
*Chair*Dieter Schott (Darmstadt Technical University)**
Sabine Barles (Université Paris 1)
The Seine, a Parisian River? Imprints, Control and Dependencies, late
17th through 20th Centuries
Giacomo Parrinello (RCC/University of Siena)
Urban Sprawl and River Basin: A Methodological Exploration of the Po Valley
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*Friday 22 February
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*09:00–10:30**Cities and their Watersheds II***
*Chair*Sabine Dabringhaus (University of Freiburg)**
Shirley Ye (Harvard University)
Local Rivers, Global City: Spatial Politics and the Making of Modern
Shanghai
Vanessa Taylor (University of Greenwich)
Watershed Democracy or Ecological Hinterland? London and the Thames
River Basin, 1960-89
*10:30–11:00****Coffee *
*11:00–13:00**Rivers Lost – Rivers Regained I***
*Chair*Dieter Schott (Darmstadt Technical University)**
Donna Rilling (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Who Damned Mill Creek?Transforming a Nineteenth-Century Watercourse and
its Neighborhood
Louise Nelson Dyble (Michigan Technological University)
Fate of the Calumet: Continuity and Confluence between Economic Policy
and the Urban Environment
GenevièveMassard-Guilbaud (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,
Paris)
The City Whose Rivers Disappeared: Nantes, 1850-1950
*13:00–14:00**Lunch *
*14:00–15:30**Rivers Lost – Rivers Regained II***
*Chair*Ellen Arnold (RCC/Ohio Wesleyan University)**
David Stradling (University of Cincinnati)
The New Cuyahoga: Straightening Cleveland’s Crooked River
Harold Platt (Loyola University Chicago)
“A Ridiculous Failure of Government”: The Chicago River in the Age of
Ecology
*15:30–16:00****Coffee *
*16:00–18:00**River Management and Urban Strategies I***
*Chair*Christof Mauch (RCC)**
Christoph Bernhardt (IRS Erkner)
Urbanising a River: Strasbourg and the Rhine in the Long 19th Century
Daniel MacFarlane (Carleton University, Ottawa)
Dam the Consequences: Montreal, Cornwall, and the St. Lawrence Seaway
and Power Project
Vladimir Sanchez (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá)
The Relationship between the Tunjuelo River and Bogotá (Colombia) during
the 20th Century: Dams, Gravel and Flooding
*Saturday 23 February *
*09:00–10:30**River Management and Urban Strategies II***
*Chair*Eva Jakobsson (RCC/University of Stavanger)**
Carlos Gomez Florentin (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Dammed City: Ciudad del Este, the Parana River and the Itaipu Dam
(1957-1991)
Dirk Schubert (HafenCity University Hamburg)
From “Silent Spring” to Turbulent Future – Managing the River Elbe and
the Requirements of the Open Tidal Seaport Hamburg
*10:30–11:00****Coffee *
*11:00–13:00**Making Sense of Rivers I***
*Chair*Martin Knoll (Darmstadt Technical University)**
Igor Chabrowski (European University Institute, Florence)
Rivers as Prisms of Urban Imagining – Easter Sichuan Work Songs
Michael Toyka-Seid (Darmstadt Technical University)
Shared waters, Shared Conceptions? Two Rhine Cities on the Long and
Winding Road to Urban Sustainable Development
Agnes Kneitz (RCC)
Polluted Thames – Declining City: London as an Ecosystem in Charles
Dickens’ “Our Mutual Friend”
*13:00–14:00**Lunch *
*14:00–16:00**Making Sense of Rivers II***
*Chair*Uwe Lübken (RCC)**
Awadhendra Sharan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi)
The River Ganges as an Urban Sink: What Difference did Colonialism Make?
Guido Hausmann (Jena University)
Kiev and the Dnepr as a Socialist Urban Landscape (1930s-1970s)
Shelley Hornstein (York University)
Union is a Raging River, or Remembering Fez as the River Remembers
*16:00–17:00****Final Discussion***
*Chairs*Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott
*Registration*Except for the Welcome reception and the Isar excursion
the workshop is free and open to the public; however registration is
required. Please send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] to sign up
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