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