Gandy, Matthew.
The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / Matthew Gandy. - Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (x, 351 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-337) and index.
Periodicities and metabolisms -- The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space -- Borrowed light: journeys through Weimar Berlin -- Mosquitoes, modernity, and post-colonial Lagos -- Water, poverty, and urban fragmentation in Mumbai -- Tracing the Los Angeles River -- Fears, fantasies, and floods : the inundation of London.
9780262321761 (eBook) 9780262028257 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014013240
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
SEWERAGE
WATER CONSUMPTION
SOCIAL ASPECTS
URBAN WATER SUPPLY
ECONOMIC ASPECTS
URBAN AREAS
TC405 / .G36 2014
333.91/15
The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / Matthew Gandy. - Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (x, 351 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-337) and index.
Periodicities and metabolisms -- The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space -- Borrowed light: journeys through Weimar Berlin -- Mosquitoes, modernity, and post-colonial Lagos -- Water, poverty, and urban fragmentation in Mumbai -- Tracing the Los Angeles River -- Fears, fantasies, and floods : the inundation of London.
9780262321761 (eBook) 9780262028257 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014013240
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
SEWERAGE
WATER CONSUMPTION
SOCIAL ASPECTS
URBAN WATER SUPPLY
ECONOMIC ASPECTS
URBAN AREAS
TC405 / .G36 2014
333.91/15