The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / Matthew Gandy.
By: Gandy, Matthew
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (x, 351 pages).ISBN: 9780262321761 (eBook); 9780262028257 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT | SEWERAGE | WATER CONSUMPTION | SOCIAL ASPECTS | URBAN WATER SUPPLY | ECONOMIC ASPECTS | URBAN AREASDDC classification: 333.91/15 Online resources: full text available (within UNU Campus) / ebrary
Contents:
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.
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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.
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