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.