City of Flows

Modernity, Nature, and the City

Maria Kaika - Collection Urban Studies / Environmental Studies

200 pages, parution le 02/06/2005

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Résumé

Nature and the modern city are often perceived as opposites, separated by firm barriers. Through a history of water's role in the modern city, City of Flows shows that nature is in fact fully integrated into urban life despite our frequent inability to recognize its presence. Natural elements and processes permeate all facets of modern urban social life, even the most mundane. The vast and mostly hidden infrastructure of water - pipes, taps, underground pumps, aqueducts - has been crucial to urban development, and Maria Kaika's investigation into its workings dissolves any sense of a geographical divide between nature and the social.

L'auteur - Maria Kaika

Maria Kaika is Departmental Lecturer in Urban Geography, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, and Director of Studies in Human Geography, St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford.

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Acknowledgments
Part I
- Preface: Visions of Modernization
- The Urbanization of Nature
- The Phantasmagoria of the Modernist Dream
- Nature as the Urban Uncanny
Part II
- Awesome Nature: Modernizing as an Archaeological Project (Early 19^thCentury)
- Tamed Nature (Late 19^th and Early 20^th Century)
- Tamed Nature as a Source of Crisis (Late 20^th Century)
Epilogue
Endnotes
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Maria Kaika
Collection	Urban Studies / Environmental Studies
Parution	02/06/2005
Nb. de pages	200
Format	15 x 22,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	298g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415947169