Virtual Exhibition: Metropolitan rivers, cities and fish: St. Petersburg, the Neva and the Viennese Danube.
Abstract
The main idea of this exhibition is to provide an unexpected vision of interconnections between cities and their rivers. This problem is actively studied and discussed now but one of the most interesting parts of those stories is excluded from public attention, namely the fish living in the rivers and eaten in the cities. Our exhibition will show the changing relation between the river and the city and local fish supply and consumption throughout the 18th to the 20th century. Our exhibition will consist of materials visualizing and analyzing different aspects of interrelations between the metropolitan cities and rivers through the perspectives of the role of urban fisheries in economy and everyday life of the cities. The exhibition will include materials from the Viennese Danube and the Neva in St. Petersburg. This combination will provide an interesting comparative perspective. It will be based on the interplay of similarities of problems of interactions of rapidly growing imperial capitals with large rivers they are built on, and contrasting problems of very different river morphology and ecology of fish populations.
Viennese Danube St. Petersburg and Neva Historical fisheries Historical urban fish consumption Historical City-River interaction
Publikationen
Project staff
Gertrud Haidvogl
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.phil. Gertrud Haidvogl
gertrud.haidvogl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81204
Project Leader
01.04.2013 - 28.02.2014
BOKU partners
External partners
European University at St. Petersburg
Dr. Julia Lajus
coordinator
Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, IFF Vienna, Institute of Social Ecoloy, Centre for Envrionmental History
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partner