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    Fragile and resilient cities on water : perspectives from Venice and Tokyo / edited by Rosa Caroli, Stefano Soriani.

    • Title:Fragile and resilient cities on water : perspectives from Venice and Tokyo / edited by Rosa Caroli, Stefano Soriani.
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    • Variant Title:Cities on water
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Caroli, Rosa, 1960- editor.
      Soriani, Stefano, editor.
    • Published/Created:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
      ©2017
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Italy--Venice.
      City planning--Japan--Tokyo.
      Cities and towns--Italy--Venice.
      Cities and towns--Japan--Tokyo.
    • Description:xviii, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:1443873381
      9781443873383
    • Contents:Forward / Rosa Caroli and Stefano Soriani
      Chapter One. Introduction: Proposing Suitogaku-towards a comparative study of cities on water / Hidenobu Jinnai
      Chapter Two. Sustainable tourism in Venice: what lessons for other fragile cities on water? / Jan van der Borg
      Chapter Three. Resilience amidst fragility along Tokyo's waterways / Paul Waley
      Chapter Four. The Sumida River Renaissance: a new policy for the development of the river / Yusaku Imamura
      Chapter Five. Conflict and synergy in the port-city relationship: critical issues and perspectives in the case of Venice / Stefano Soriani
      Chapter Six. Considering the redevelopment of the Tokyo Bay Area from the basics / Hidenobu Jinnai
      Chapter Seven. Loss and recovery of lowland rivers in Tokyo / Nobuyuki Tsuchiya
      Chapter Eight. Tsukudajima: a man-made island in Edo (Tokyo) Bay / Rosa Caroli
      Chapter Nine. The development of Tokyo Bay and waterborne traffic / Iwao Takamatsu
      Chapter Ten. Venice: living with water, learning with nature-a regenerating arena for global cities / Giovanni Cecconi.
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