Hein C. Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage...2020

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This book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form.
The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future: part I discusses drinking water management; part II addresses water use in agriculture; part III explores water management for land reclamation and defense; part IV examines river and coastal planning; and part V focuses on port cities and waterfront regeneration.
Introduction: Connecting Water and Heritage for the Future
Drinking Water
Silent and Unseen: Stewardship of Water Infrastructural Heritage
The Qanat System: A Reflection on the Heritage of the Extraction of Hidden Waters
Studying Ancient Water Management in Monte Albán, Mexico, to Solve Water Issues, Improve Urban Living, and Protect Heritage in the Present
Thirsty Cities: Learning from Dutch Water Supply Heritage
Agricultural Water
Water Meadows as European Agricultural Heritage
Holler Colonies and the Altes Land: A Vivid Example of the Importance of European Intangible and Tangible Heritage
Archaic Water: The Role of a Legend in Constructing the Water Management Heritage of Sanbonkihara, Japan
How Citizens Reshaped a Plan for an Aerotropolis and Preserved the Water Heritage System of the Taoyuan Tableland
Land Reclamation and Defense
Reassessing Heritage: Contradiction and Discrepancy Between Fishery and Agriculture in Planning the Hachirogata Polder and Its Surrounding Lagoon in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan
The Noordoostpolder: A Landscape Planning Perspective on the Preservation and Development of Twentieth-Century Polder Landscapes in the Netherlands
Europolders a European Program on Polder Landscape, Heritage, and Innovation
Hold the Line: The transformation of the New Dutch Waterline and the Future Possibilities of Heritage
‘Absent–Present’ Heritage: The Cultural Heritage of Dwelling on the Changjian (Yangtze) River
Neglected and Undervalued Cultural Heritage: Waterfronts and Riverbanks of Alblasserwaard, The Netherlands
Room for the River: Innovation, or Tradition? The Case of the Noordwaard
Heritage in European Coastal Landscapes—Four Reasons for Inter-regional Knowledge Exchange
Port Cities and Waterfronts
The Impact of Planning Reform on Water-Related Heritage Values and on Recalling Collective Maritime Identity of Port Cities: The Case of Rotterdam
From HERITAGE to Feritage: How Economic Path Dependencies in the Caribbean Cruise Destinations Are Distorting the Uses of Heritage Architecture and Urban Form
Using Heritage to Develop Sustainable Port–City Relationships: Lisbon’s Shift from Object-Based to Landscape Approaches
Toward a Cultural Heritage of Adaptation: A Plea to Embrace the Heritage of a Culture of Risk, Vulnerability and Adaptation