The Power of Urban Water Studies in Premodern Urbanism
Wasser ist eine globale Ressource für heutige Gesellschaften – Wasser war eine globale Ressource vormoderner Gesellschaften. Die manigfaltigen unterschiedlicher Wassersysteme für Prozesse der Urbanisierung und das urbane Leben in der Antike und dem Mittelalter ist bislang kaum erforscht. Die zahlrei...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter
2020
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431810306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From Nature to Topography
- 3. Fountains and the Ancient City
- 4. Water, Social Space and Architecture at Selinous: the Case of the Urban Sanctuary
- 5. Fountains and Basins in Greek Sanctuaries
- 6. Water in Early Christian Ritual: Baptism and Baptisteries in Corinth
- 7. Aquatic Pasts & the Watery Present: Water and Memory in the Fora of Rome
- 8. Water and Decentring Urbanism in the Roman Period: Urban Materiality, Post-Humanism and Identity
- 9. Water and Urban Structures in the Narrative Worlds of Courtly Novels − Aesthetic and Symbolic Functions
- 10. Syracusan Water Networks in Antiquity
- 11. Meeting Water Needs as a Major Challenge in an Urban Context
- 12. Ice Jams and their Impact on Urban Communities from a Long-term Perspective (Middle Ages to the 19th Century)
- 13. Medieval and Post-Medieval Urban Water Supply and Sanitation
- 14. Harbourscapes
- 15. Human Impact on Hydrology
- 16. Water as an Economic Resource and as an Environmental Challenge Within the Urbanisation Process of the Rhine Valley in the 13th Century
- List of Contributors
