| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.3

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Book Review

Water, Time and European Cities: History Matters for the Futures. Edited by Petri S. Juuti and Tapio S. Katko. Tampere, Finland: WaterTime, 2005. 253 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, references. Free.

This book is a valuable resource for historians who study past water systems and policymakers who plan future ones. It tries to create a usable past by connecting historical research with "futures research," a field of inquiry that analyzes the relationship between present-day decision making and alternative futures. Funded by the European Commission through the WaterTime Project, the volume examines the development of water systems in twenty-nine European cities, from Stockholm to Rome and Bucharest to Madrid. Thirteen individually authored chapters, one for each country, uncover the institutional decisions that produced these systems, and an analysis of the collected data by the editors transforms the volume into more than the sum of its parts. No comparable work exists.

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