Overview
- Multi-disciplinary focus, including design, engineering, ecology, politics, planning, geography and other social sciences
- Global case studies and authors, crossing developed and developing country contexts
- Addresses key trends in debates about water in cities, highlighting conflicting as well as convergent viewpoints
- Audience of urban professionals, activists, researchers and students
- Identifies the practical impact of politics and discourse about water in cities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Future City (FUCI, volume 6)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Water Trajectories
Editors: Sarah Bell, Adriana Allen, Pascale Hofmann, Tse-Hui Teh
Series Title: Future City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42686-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42684-6Published: 01 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43791-0Published: 07 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42686-0Published: 22 October 2016
Series ISSN: 1876-0899
Series E-ISSN: 1876-0880
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 214
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urbanism, Urban Ecology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management