Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 13
4. 1 River Cities in Asia 15
5. 2 Water World to Inundation 37
6. 3 From the City to the Sea 57
7. 4 The Political Economy of Banjarmasin’s River Landscape during the Sultanate Period (1526–1860) 85
8. 5 Through the Passage and across the Worlds 111
9. 6 Challenges to an Iconic River-City 135
10. 7 River-Edge Relationships 157
11. 8 Recovering the Stream 189
12. 9 Water’s Edge Urbanisms along the Buckingham Canal in Chennai 213
13. 10 The Social Downside of Flood Control 241
14. 11 Hybrid Riverscapes 267
15. Index 289