Author: GUTHRIE. HUTTON
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781840339345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Francesco Vallerani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-11
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1315398443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: British Transport Commission. Board of Survey of Canals and Inland Waterways
Publisher:
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13:
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Publisher:
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780007211166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Philip John Greer Ransom
Publisher: National Museums of Scotland
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781901663228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scotland from a watery lens. Its essential waterways of 19th century life fell into disrepair & are the subject of extensive life fell into disrepair & are the subject of extensive restoration.
Author: Nick Haynes
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781849171656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas J. Dowds
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781862322325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Forth and Clyde Canal, completed in 1790, was by far the largest engineering project that had ever been seen in Scotland. It allowed coal and machinery to travel East and grain to travel West. Passengers could travel between Glasgow and Edinburgh in greater comfort than by stagecoach, and it produced employment along its entire route. But it required capital on a scale previously unknown; it required the collaboration of Edinburgh, Glasgow and London; it required new technology; and it encountered its full measure of constructional problems. It took 22 years to build.The Forth and Clyde Canal enjoyed half a century of success before it was eclipsed by the railways. Although the passenger trade was lost, and much of the freight also, the canal struggled on for another century before the rise of road transport resulted in its decline. Now, after a long period of neglect, and sporting the spectacular Falkirk Wheel, it enjoys new life as an imaginative leisure resource.Thomas J. Dowds tells the story of the rise, fall and rise again of this landmark in Scottish history.
Author: Urquhart Atwell Forbes
Publisher: London : Murray
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
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