Gandy, Matthew.

The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / Matthew Gandy. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9780262321761


Water resources development.
Sewerage.
Water use--Social aspects.
Municipal water supply--Economic aspects.
City and town life.
Urban ecology (Sociology)


Electronic Books.

TC405 / .F337 2014