Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction: Connecting Water and Heritage for the Future

   • Carola Hein, Henk van Schaik, Diederik Six, Tino Mager, Jan (J. C. A.) Kolen, Maurits Ertsen et al.

   Pages 1-18Open Access

3. Drinking Water

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Silent and Unseen: Stewardship of Water Infrastructural Heritage

      • Meisha Hunter Burkett

      Pages 20-39Open Access

   3. The Qanat System: A Reflection on the Heritage of the Extraction of Hidden Waters

      • Negar Sanaan Bensi

      Pages 40-57Open Access

   4. Studying Ancient Water Management in Monte Albán, Mexico, to Solve Water Issues, Improve Urban Living, and Protect Heritage in the Present

      • Araceli Rojas, Nahuel Beccan Dávila

      Pages 58-77Open Access

   5. Thirsty Cities: Learning from Dutch Water Supply Heritage

      • Suzanne Loen

      Pages 78-103Open Access

4. Agricultural Water

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Water Meadows as European Agricultural Heritage

      • Hans Renes, Csaba Centeri, Sebastian Eiter, Bénédicte Gaillard, Alexandra Kruse, Zdeněk Kučera et al.

      Pages 106-131Open Access

   3. Holler Colonies and the Altes Land: A Vivid Example of the Importance of European Intangible and Tangible Heritage

      • Alexandra Kruse, Bernd Paulowitz

      Pages 132-151Open Access

   4. Archaic Water: The Role of a Legend in Constructing the Water Management Heritage of Sanbonkihara, Japan

      • Izumi Kuroishi

      Pages 152-171Open Access

   5. How Citizens Reshaped a Plan for an Aerotropolis and Preserved the Water Heritage System of the Taoyuan Tableland

      • Sinite Yu, Chung-Hsi Lin, Hsiaoen Wu, Wenyao Hsu, Yu-Chuan Chang

      Pages 172-189Open Access

5. Land Reclamation and Defense

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Reassessing Heritage: Contradiction and Discrepancy Between Fishery and Agriculture in Planning the Hachirogata Polder and Its Surrounding Lagoon in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan

      • Yasunori Kitao

      Pages 192-211Open Access

   3. The Noordoostpolder: A Landscape Planning Perspective on the Preservation and Development of Twentieth-Century Polder Landscapes in the Netherlands

      • Steffen Nijhuis

      Pages 212-229Open Access

   4. Europolders a European Program on Polder Landscape, Heritage, and Innovation

      • Hildebrand P. G. de Boer

      Pages 230-249Open Access

   5. Hold the Line: The transformation of the New Dutch Waterline and the Future Possibilities of Heritage

      • Gerdy Verschuure-Stuip

      Pages 250-269Open Access

6. River and Coastal Planning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. ‘Absent–Present’ Heritage: The Cultural Heritage of Dwelling on the Changjian (Yangtze) River

      • Andrew M. Law, Xi Chen

      Pages 272-289Open Access

   3. Neglected and Undervalued Cultural Heritage: Waterfronts and Riverbanks of Alblasserwaard, The Netherlands

      • Arie den Boer

      Pages 290-307Open Access

This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form. 

The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future: part I discusses drinking water management; part II addresses water use in agriculture; part III explores water management for land reclamation and defense; part IV examines river and coastal planning; and part V focuses on port cities and waterfront regeneration. 

Today, the many complex systems of the past are necessarily the basis for new systems that both preserve the past and manage water today: policy makers and designers can work together to recognize and build on the traditional knowledge and skills that old structure embody. This book argues that there is a need for a common agenda and an integrated policy that addresses the preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of historic water-related structures. Throughout, it imagines how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes and bodies of water.  

• Historic Water-Sites
• Planning Heritage
• Heritage Policies of Hydrological Landscapes
• Water Culture
• Water Management and Irrigation Systems
• Waterfront Regeneration
• Open Access
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• water policy

   

• Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Technical University Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

  Carola Hein