CONTENTS Water and the City 5 The 'Great Stink' and Clean Urbanism Bruno De Meulder & Kelly Shannon WATER CULTURES 10 Essaya on Water Urbanism Quays as Keys Antwerp, Belgium Bruno De Meulder Water+Asphalt: The Project of Isotrophy Veneto Region, Italy Paola Vigano Pumps+Polders 29 The Netherlands Inge Bobbink Reinventing Waterscape Urbanism 37 Changde, China Antje Stokman South Asian Hydraulic Civilizations 47 India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Kelly Shannon Between Pampa and the River 59 La Plata, Argentina Viviana d'Auria & Laura Vescina ANOTHER WATER URBANISM 67 Vietnamese Urban Projects Modernity in the Mekong 69 Cantho, Vietnam Matthew Neville Water[re] Cycling, Phong Dien77 Cantho, Viernam Ngo Trung Hai & Kelly Shannon [re]volutionary Land _structure Infra_scape83 Hiep Phuoc, Vietnam Bieke Cattoor & janina Gosseye Tan Hoa Lo Gom Canal Upgrading 89 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Benoit Legrand & Kelly Shannon EXPLORATIONS AND SPECULATIONS 95 Excerpts of Water urbanism Canalizing and Colonizing the Campine 96 The Campine, Belgium Maarten Van Acker Water and [re]Production Logics in Amsterdam 98 Ij River, The Netherlands Karl Beelen Pani and Mati 100 Khulna, Bangladesh Sabina Favaro Recovery and Reconfiguration of Morii Lake102 Morii Lake, Romania Teodora Capelle The Shifted Connectivity of Kete Krachi 104 Volta Lake, Romania Barbara Roosen Pond City106 Taoyuan Metropolitan Area, Taiwan Daoming Chang Weaving Water and Rail 108 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ana Beja da Costa Urbanity between Coalscapes and Water 110 Le Centre, Belgium Christian Nolf Living in a Hybrid-Dyke 112 The Ronde Venen, The Netherlands Si Minji Re-tracing Chile's Central Littoral114 Catapilco River, Chile Carolina Contreras