City of flows : modernity, nature, and the city / Maria Kaika.

Main entry:

Kaika, Maria.

Title & Author:

City of flows : modernity, nature, and the city / Maria Kaika.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references pages (175-194) and index.
Preface : visions of modernisation -- The urbanisation of nature -- The phantasmagoria of the modernist dream -- Nature as the urban uncanny -- Awesome nature : modernizing as an archaeological project -- Tamed nature : late 19th and early 20th century -- Late 20th century : tamed nature as a source of crisis -- Epilogue.

Summary:

City and nature are typically perceived as opposites but, in this work, Maria Kaika argues against this perception through a novel theoretical investigation of the tight interrelationship between the modern city and nature.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415947154 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415947152 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415947162 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780415947169 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urbanization.
Nature and civilization.
Municipal water supply.
Urbanisation.
Nature et civilisation.
Eau Approvisionnement urbain.
urbanization.
Umweltnutzung
Verstädterung
Wasserversorgung
Urbanisering.
Människan och naturen.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234195
Call No.: HT361 .K3 2005
Status: Available

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