Riverine

<p>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. <i>Riverine</i> explores the ways in which architecture and urban planning have imbued cultural landscapes with ritual and structural meaning.</p>