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Waterways and the Cultural Landscape

Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Published: 11th Sep 2017
Dimensions: w 163mm h 236mm d 22mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN-10: 1138226041
ISBN-13: 9781138226043
Barcode No: 9781138226043
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Synopsis
Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of canals and the wetland reclamation schemes from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, generated new typologies of waterscapes with significant implications for the people who resided within them. This book explores the role of waterways as a form of heritage, culture and sense of place and the potential of this to underpin the development of cultural tourism. With a multidisciplinary approach across the social sciences and humanities, chapters explore how the control and management of water flows are among some of the most significant human activities to transform the natural environment. Based upon a wealth and breadth of European case studies, the book uncovers the complex relationships we have with waterways, the ways that they have been represented over recent centuries and the ways in which they continue to be redefined in different cultural contexts. Contributions recognise not only valuable assets of hydrology that are at the core of landscape management, but also more intangible aspects that matter to people, such as their familiarity, affecting what is understood as the fluvial sense of place. This highly original collection will be of interest to those working in cultural tourism, cultural geography, heritage studies, cultural history, landscape studies and leisure studies.

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"Waterways and the Cultural Landscape offers glimpses of waterways' future prospects, noting, for example, the potential for digital appreciation. One might hope the editors' optimistic vision for human-water relations comes to fruition. This will only be known through greater attention to all types of waterscapes, furthering the scholastic endeavour this book initiates and celebrates."

- Hannah Pitt, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, Wales UK

"This book collects some of the most meaningful contributions on this emerging topic that Vallerani and Visentin have successfully attempted to frame and realise. The contributions of the two editors serve the purpose to provide an overarching andoriginal reflection on the cultural importance of hydrography and everyday life inwaterscapes, and therefore of the social relevance of historic waterways, the two main partsin which the book is articulated reaffirm the centrality of two broad topics traditionally well established in cultural landscape studies."

- Giulio Verdini in Buildings & Landscapes Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 25(2):118-120

"A work such as this, featuring a comprehensive discussion of the inland waterways from the cultural perspective and with a strong focus on their use and potential for tourism, islong overdue. The book starts with an introduction by one of the editors, Vallerani, setting the scenein his eloquent and beautifully crafted argument for the fluvial sensibilities towards thesocio-natural world, as well as for the 'fluvial sense of place'."

- Maarja Kaaristo in Tourism Geographies 21(1):1-3

"The volume arrives with laudable punctuality an investigative topic of great interest: the relationship between inland waterways and cultural landscapes. A further aspect of particular interest in the volume is represented by the cut comparative approach, which, by comparing case studies in several European countries, offers the opportunity to reflect on the relationship between geographical typology (the way of internal water) and its territorial incarnations in different countries and regions, expression of a fruitful argumentative tension between a reading that favors affinities and another complementary perspective that returns instead the differences and uniqueness related to individual places."

- Davide Papotti, Semestrale di studi e ricerche di Geografia

"The editors refer to a 'watery turn' (p.246) among the many disciplines that have a bearing on this topic, making it a good time to develop our understanding of the many facets of waterway culture in the past and how it might be explored as heritage in the present. The authors and editors have put together a useful collection that is both intriguing and encouraging."

- Antony Firth in the The International Journal of Nautical Archeology, 48 (1): 255-256