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Open Access
Decadent Infrastructure?
Representations of Water in the Kingdom of Naples in the Early Nineteenth Century
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David Gentilcore
Chapter DOI:
doi.org/10.1515/9783111112756-011
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- The Hybrid Nature of Infrastructures 1
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I. Overview
- Provocations to Environmental History and History of Technology: The Anthropocene 15
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II. Urban Metabolism and the Transformation of Hinterlands
- Urban Environmental Infrastructure in the Eastern Alpine Region. (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century) 39
- From “Stues” to “Çates” 59
- Uranium Stories 85
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III. The Multiple Scales of Enviro-Technical Systems
- Water as Infrastructure and the Scalar Mismatch 113
- The Ideal Public for Infrastructures 129
- Dirty New Natures 141
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IV. Hybrid Landscape: Infrastructures of Water Control
- Coping with Water 163
- Slow Infrastructures, Flood Protection and Extreme Weather Events 179
- Decadent Infrastructure? 199
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V. Conclusion
- Afterword: Reflections on Environmental Infrastructure 233
- Contributors 239
Chapter DOI:
doi.org/10.1515/9783111112756-011
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- The Hybrid Nature of Infrastructures 1
-
I. Overview
- Provocations to Environmental History and History of Technology: The Anthropocene 15
-
II. Urban Metabolism and the Transformation of Hinterlands
- Urban Environmental Infrastructure in the Eastern Alpine Region. (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century) 39
- From “Stues” to “Çates” 59
- Uranium Stories 85
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III. The Multiple Scales of Enviro-Technical Systems
- Water as Infrastructure and the Scalar Mismatch 113
- The Ideal Public for Infrastructures 129
- Dirty New Natures 141
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IV. Hybrid Landscape: Infrastructures of Water Control
- Coping with Water 163
- Slow Infrastructures, Flood Protection and Extreme Weather Events 179
- Decadent Infrastructure? 199
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V. Conclusion
- Afterword: Reflections on Environmental Infrastructure 233
- Contributors 239
