Water and Cities - Street Signs, CUCR by Goldsmiths UOL published on 2019-10-11T13:29:17Z In this edition of Street Signs podcast Les Back meets Sophie Watson at the launch of her new book City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water and explores the relationship between water and cities. Dr Alison Rooke from CUCR also offers her appreciation of the significance of the book. We learn that thinking about the place of water in cities makes us ask different questions about the nature and quality of city life. This accessible and beautifully written book covers a wide range of themes ranging from the forms of social life enabled by public bathing, the changing meanings of Thames steps and the businesses that have sprung up to enable the votive ashes of members of London’s Hindu community to be scattered in the river.
