Introduction / Martin Knoll, Uwe Lubken, and Dieter Schott
Part I. Rivers Controlled : Cities and Their Watersheds
Rivers, Industrial Cities, and Hinterland Production in Quebec in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Stephane Castonguay
The Seine as a Parisian River : Its Imprint, Its Ascendancy and Its Mutual Dependencies in the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century / Sabine Barles
Watershed Democracy or Ecological Hinterland? : London and the Thames River Basin, 1857-1989 / Vanessa Taylor
Part II. Urban Rivers Transformed and Lost
The City Whose Rivers Disappeared : Nantes, 1850-1950 / Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud
The New Cuyahoga : Straightening Cleveland's Crooked River / David Stradling
A "Slum River" : The Unequal Urbanization of Bogota (Colombia) and the Transformation of the Tunjuelo River in the Twentieth Century / Vladimir Sanchez-Calderon
Urbanizing a River in a Bicultural Border Region : Strasbourg and the Upper Rhine on the Way to Water Modernity, 1789-1925 / Christoph Bernhardt
Path Dependencies Managing the River Elbe and the Requirements of Hamburg's Open Tidal Seaport / Dirk Schubert
Part III. Cultural Dimensions of Urban Rivers
Rivers as Prisms of Urban Imagining : Eastern Sichuan Work Songs / Igor Chabrowski
The Ganges as an Urban Sink : Urban Waste and River Flow in Colonial India in the Nineteenth Century / Awadhendra Sharan
Polluted Thames, Declining City : London as an Ecosystem in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend / Agnes Kneitz
Living on the River over the Year : The Significance of the Neva to Imperial Saint Petersburg / Alexei V. Kraikovski and Julia Lajus
Part IV. Rivers Regained
"A Ridiculous Failure of Government" : The Chicago River in the Age of Ecology / Harold L. Platt
Shared Waters, Shared Conceptions? : Two Rhine Cities on the Long and Winding Road to Urban Sustainability / Michael Toyka-Seid
Revitalization of a Tamed River : The Isar in Munich / Nico Döring and Georg Jochum
Union is a Raging River, or, Remembering Fez as the River Remembers / Shelley Hornstein.