Urban Water Trajectories

229 Pages·2017·4.952 MB·English

by  Sarah Bell, Adriana Allen, Pascale Hofmann, Tse-Hui Teh (eds.)

Future City 6
Sarah Bell
Adriana Allen
Pascale Hofmann
Tse-Hui Teh Editors
Urban Water
Trajectories
Urban Water Trajectories
FUTURE CITY Volume 6
Advisory Board
Jack Ahern, University of Massachusetts, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning, Amherst, MA, USA
John Bolte, Oregon State University, Biological & Ecological Engineering Department, Corvallis,
OR, USA
Richard Dawson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Civil Engineering & Geosciences,
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development,
Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester, UK
Almo Farina, University of Urbino, Institute of Biomathematics, Faculty of Environmental
Sciences, Urbino, Italy
Raymond James Green, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning,
Parkville, VIC, Australia
Glenn R. Guntenspergen, National Resources Research Institute, US Geological Survey, Duluth,
MN, USA
Dagmar Haase, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Department of
Computational Landscape Ecology, Leipzig, Germany
Michael Jenks, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Institute of Sustainable Development,
Department of Architecture, Oxford, UK
Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of
Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Alnarp, Sweden
Joan Iverson Nassauer, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment,
Landscape Ecology, Perception and Design Lab, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Stephan Pauleit, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning
and Management, Freising, Germany
Steward T.A. Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA
Robert Vale, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Architecture and Design, Wellington,
New Zealand
Ken Yeang, Llewelyn Davies Yeang, London, UK
Makoto Yokohari, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Sciences, Institute of Environmental
Studies, Department of Natural Environment, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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Sarah Bell (cid:129) Adriana Allen
Pascale Hofmann (cid:129) Tse-Hui Teh
Editors
Urban Water Trajectories
Editors
Sarah Bell Adriana Allen
Department of Civil, Environmental and The Bartlett Development Planning Unit
Geomatic Engineering University College London (UCL)
University College London (UCL) London , UK
London , UK
Tse-Hui Teh
Pascale Hofmann The Bartlett School of Planning
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit University College London (UCL)
University College London (UCL) London , UK
London , UK
ISSN 1876-0899 ISSN 1876-0880 (electronic)
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Acknowledgements
F irst and foremost, we would like to thank all the contributors to this book for their
intellectual efforts and patience in putting together this edited volume, Sally
Horspool for her copy editing skills and Atiyeh Ardakanian for her administrative
assistance in pulling together the full manuscript. We would also like to acknowl-
edge funds from University College London Bartlett School of Planning,
Development Planning Unit and Grand Challenges.
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Contents
Part I Water Transformations
1 Dividing the Waters: Urban Growth, City Life
and Water Management in Amsterdam 1100–2000 ............................. 5
Cornelis Disco
2 TOXI-CITY: Protecting World-Class Drinking Water ....................... 21
Emma Jones
3 Reading Urban Futures Through Their Blue Infrastructure:
Wetland Networks in Bangalore and Madurai, India ......................... 35
Jayaraj Sundaresan , Adriana Allen , and Cassidy Johnson
Part II Water Options
4 Framing Sustainable Urban Water Management:
A Critical Analysis of Theory and Practice .......................................... 53
Anna Hurlimann , Elizabeth Wilson , and Svenja Keele
5 Water Reuse Trajectories ....................................................................... 69
Jonathan Wilcox , Sarah Bell , and Fuzhan Nasiri
6 Unfolding Urban Geographies of Water- Related
Vulnerability and Inequalities: Recognising Risks
in Knowledge Building in Lima, Peru ................................................... 81
Liliana Miranda Sara , Karin Pfeffer , and Isa Baud
Part III Water Services
7 Multi-layered Trajectories of Water and Sanitation
Poverty in Dar es Salaam ....................................................................... 103
Pascale Hofmann
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8 Business Incentives and Models for Sanitation Entrepreneurs
to Provide Services to the Urban Poor in Africa .................................. 119
Tracey Keatman
9 Contesting and Co-Producing the Right to Water in Peri-Urban
Cochabamba ............................................................................................ 133
Anna Walnycki
10 Water Remunicipalisation: Between Pendulum Swings
and Paradigm Advocacy ......................................................................... 149
Emanuele Lobina
Part IV Water Politics
11 Past, Present and Future Urban Water: The Challenges
in Creating More Beneficial Trajectories .............................................. 165
Iain White
12 Water and the (All Too Easy) Promised City:
A Critique of Urban Water Governance ............................................... 179
Antonio A. R. Ioris
13 Moulding Citizenship: Urban Water
and the (Dis)appearing Kampungs........................................................ 193
Prathiwi W. Putri
Conclusions: Retracing Urban Trajectories Through Water ...................... 209
Contributors
Adriana Allen is professor of urban sustainability and development planning at

the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL),
where she leads the research cluster on Environmental Justice, Urbanisation and
Resilience. She has almost 30 years of international experience in research and
consultancy undertakings in over 20 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Both as an academic and practitioner, her work focuses on the interface between
development and environmental concerns in the urban context of the Global South
and more specifi cally on establishing transformative links between spatial planning,
environmental justice and sustainability in urban and peri-urban contexts.
Isa Baud is professor of international development studies at the University of

Amsterdam. She has worked extensively on issues of urban development, focusing
especially on local governance arrangements, exclusion processes and poverty and
livelihood issues. She was vice president for the European Association of
Development Studies from 2002 to 2008 and is on the editorial board of several
leading journals in development studies.
Sarah Bell is director of the Engineering Exchange and senior lecturer in environ-

mental engineering at UCL. Her research investigates the sustainability of urban
water systems, particularly social and policy factors as they relate to engineering.
She has supervised research on urban water systems in Australia, the UK, Mexico,
Iran, Kenya and Peru and works in collaboration with engineering, community and
policy partners.
Cornelis Disco i s senior researcher in the Department of Science, Technology and

Policy Studies at the University of Twente. He studied sociology at Yale University
and the University of Amsterdam. He has published numerous articles and contrib-
uted to a number of edited volumes in the broad domain of science and technology
studies, most recently on the topics of water management, spatial planning and the
history of the Rhine River.
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Pascale Hofmann is a lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL,

where she teaches on MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development while also
doing her doctorate. Her expertise lies within the fi eld of urban environmental plan-
ning and management and urban sustainability with most of her research focusing
on urban and peri-urban water supply and sanitation to explore the scope for ade-
quate and equitable access to services and the sustainable use of resources. Her
current research is concerned with the dialectics of urban water poverty, examining
different institutional narratives and contrasting them with everyday trajectories and
how people navigate through urban water poverty.
Anna Hurlimann is a senior lecturer in urban planning at the Faculty of

Architecture Building and Planning, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr
Hurlimann is a social scientist with a research focus on sustainable water manage-
ment, climate change adaptation and sustainability. In particular, she is interested in
how spatial planning has the capacity for action in these fi elds.
Antonio A. R. Ioris i s a political geographer, lecturer in environment and society

and director of the MSc in Environment and Development at the School of
Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. His main academic interests concern the
politicised interdependencies between society and the rest of nature; the contested
reform of public policies and the apparatus of the state, environmental justice and
multiple political practices; and the contradictions of agribusiness modernisation.
Cassidy Johnson is a senior lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit,

UCL. She has a background in urban studies and minimum cost housing, with a
focus on low- and middle-income countries. Her interests are concerned with how
communities and governments can prepare urban areas to be resilient to and respond
to disasters and the implications of forced evictions in cities. She has done research
on post-disaster temporary housing – particularly looking at disaster recovery in
Turkey and on urban rehabilitation and Roman communities in Istanbul. She has
also worked with Natural Resources Canada on the use of solar energy in cities.
Cassidy is a founding member of Information and Research for Reconstruction
Network (i-Rec) and coordinator of CIB Task Group 63, Disasters and the Built
Environment.
Emma M. Jones i s an editor of the Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary

Medicine publications on the history of modern biomedicine at Queen Mary
University of London (QMUL), and a research assistant to Professor Tilli Tansey.
She is the author of Parched City: a history of London’s public and private drinking
water (Zero Books, 2013), and has given numerous water-related talks on the social
and cultural history of water drinking in London. Emma studied architectural his-
tory at UCL.
Tracey Keatman i s a senior consultant with Partnerships in Practice, a UK-based

social enterprise building on the work of the NGO Building Partnerships for