1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796479103321

Autore

Gandy Matthew

Titolo

The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / / Matthew Gandy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32176-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Disciplina

333.91/15

Soggetti

Water resources development

Sewerage

Water use - Social aspects

Municipal water supply - Economic aspects

City and town life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910333130203321

Titolo

Applied ergonomics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Pergamon, ©1969-

ISSN

1872-9126

Soggetti

Human engineering

Ergonomics

Ergonomie

Zeitschrift

Online-Ressource

Periodical

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from contents screen (ScienceDirect, viewed February 14, 2007).

Published: Elsevier, <2006->