The Fabric of Space : Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination.
Title:
The Fabric of Space : Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination.
Author:
Gandy, Matthew.
ISBN:
9780262321761
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: The Paris Sewers and the Rationalization of Urban Space -- 2: Borrowed Light: Journeys through Weimar Berlin -- 3: Mosquitoes, Modernity, and Postcolonial Lagos -- 4: Water, Poverty, and Urban Fragmentation in Mumbai -- 5: Tracing the Los Angeles River -- 6: Fears, Fantasies, and Floods: The Inundation of London -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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