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City of Flows : Modernity, Nature, and the City.
Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the case. Rather, nature and the modern city are fu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.