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The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / Matthew Gandy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gandy, Matthew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water resources development.
- Sewerage.
- Water use--Social aspects.
- Water use.
- Municipal water supply--Economic aspects.
- Municipal water supply.
- City and town life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-32176-9
- OCLC:
- 895257641
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