Fabric of space: water, modernity and the urban imagination / by Matthew Gandy

By:

Gandy, Matthew

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: MIT Press, 2014. Cambridge:Description: x, 351 pISBN:

9780262028257

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DDC classification:

333.9115 GAN-F

Contents:

1.Introduction -- 2.The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space -- 3.Borrowed light: journeys through Weimar Berlin -- 4.Mosquitoes, modernity, and post-colonial Lagos -- 5.Water, poverty, and urban fragmentation in Mumbai -- 6.Tracing the Los Angeles River -- 7.Fears, fantasies, and floods: the inundation of London.

Summary: A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB F-1	Non Fiction	333.9115 GAN-F (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010166

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1.Introduction --
2.The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space --
3.Borrowed light: journeys through Weimar Berlin --
4.Mosquitoes, modernity, and post-colonial Lagos --
5.Water, poverty, and urban fragmentation in Mumbai --
6.Tracing the Los Angeles River --
7.Fears, fantasies, and floods: the inundation of London.

A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.

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