Channeling Politics: Shaping shorelines & cities in the Netherlands, 1990-2010
Water-oriented real estate development has emerged as a leading urban investment strategy over the past few decades. But business interests are only part of the story, and the political possibilities created when soil is turned into streams and lakes or when land-based construction is given an aquatic focus are vast. As this study of water politics in Amsterdam shows, bringing water back to the forefront of urban planning today is creating an entirely new spatial terrain of action in the city where ideas of class, nature, sexuality, and security collide in tenacious, sometimes troubling, and o... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | etd |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
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eScholarship
University of California |
Schlagwörter: | Geography |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26791911 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8411r1dr |