Gandy, Matthew

Fabric of space: water, modernity and the urban imagination / by Matthew Gandy - Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014. - x, 351 p.

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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