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Junichi Hasegawa, Philip Hayward - Ghost Rivers and Daylighting in Urban Landscapes, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Ghost Rivers and Daylighting in Urban Landscapes

Av Junichi Hasegawa, Philip Hayward

Del i serien Sociohydrology (CABI Concise)

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Across the world's major cities, many rivers and streams have been buried, culverted, or channelled underground in the pursuit of urban order and expansion. These hidden waterways-sometimes known as "ghost rivers"-linger beneath the surface, shaping cityscapes, cultural imaginaries, and contemporary environmental debates. This volume investigates the histories, meanings, and afterlives of ghost rivers through comparative case studies in London, Sydney, and Tokyo.. It examines the growing international movement to "daylight" concealed rivers as both ecological intervention and cultural practice, with reference to influential projects such as Seoul's Cheonggyecheon Stream and similar initiatives in New York and Sheffield (UK) Bringing together perspectives from cultural geography, urban studies, and sociohydrology, the book situates river concealment and restoration within broader discussions of environmental heritage, memory, and urban sustainability. It reveals how the material and metaphorical "ghostliness" of buried rivers continues to inform debates on nature, culture, and the reimagination of cities in the Anthropocene. A interesting read for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Tourism, Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Cultural Geography and Hydrology students, practitioners and policymakers
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Junichi Hasegawa (Author) Junichi Hasegawa is a professor at Keio University in Tokyo. He has written books and articles on British and Japanese urban policy and urban planning during and after the Second World War, including Replanning the Blitzed City Centre (Open University Press, 1992), 'The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in 1940s Britain', Twentieth Century British History Vol. 10 (1999) and (with Nick Tiratsoo) Urban Reconstruction in Britain and Japan, 1945-1955 (University of Luton Press, 2002). His recent publications include 'The Infilling and Reclamation of Inland Waterways in Tokyo, 1945-1962', Shima Vol. 17 (2023), 'The plans for Tokyo Bay: the challenge of urban policy, 1950s-1990s', Urban History Vol. 51 (2024) and 'Redeveloping Tokyo's Meiji Jingu Gaien Area: The Metropolitan Government's City Planning Runs Amok', Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus Vol. 23 (2025).Philip Hayward (Author, Series Edited By) Philip Hayward is an adjunct professor in the School of Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna and editor of two CABI Compact book series: Sociohydrology and Island and Coastal Studies. He has written widely on riverine and related aquatic topics in various journals and his latest volumes include Aquapelagos: Integrated Marine and Terrestrial Assemblages, co-edited with May Joseph, published by Routledge (2024) and Ghost Rivers and Daylighting in Urban Environments, co-authored with Junichi Hasegawa, published by CABI (2026).

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