The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / / Matthew Gandy
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| Autore: |
Gandy Matthew
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| Titolo: |
The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / / Matthew Gandy
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.91/15 |
| Soggetto topico: | Water resources development |
| Sewerage | |
| Water use - Social aspects | |
| Municipal water supply - Economic aspects | |
| City and town life | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The fabric of space |
| ISBN: | 0-262-32176-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822109203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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