Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.
Analyzing the history of fish populations in the Neva and Viennese Danube, the Russian-Austrian research group discovered numerous links between the great cities and their great rivers, including the fish populations. This introduction to the virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers” explains how the exhibition visualizes these links and reveal some hidden (or at least not immediately evident) sides of urban life.
This exhibition shows some of the many links between the Neva River in St. Petersburg and the Viennese Danube discovered during the joint Russian-Austrian research project “The Long-Term Dynamics of Fish Populations and Ecosystems of European Rivers.”
Excerpt from RCC alumnus Fabian Zimmer’s book Hydroelektrische Projektionen.
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield?
This article presents examples of ancient conceptions of rivers as more-than-human agents and their struggle with humans.
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
