Social power and the urbanization of water : flows of power /
"Social Power and the Urbanization of Water takes the circulation of water as a lense through which to analyse how the natural and social fuse together in the process of urbanization. In addition, excavating the circulation of water provides a vehicle to examine the relations between social, po...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Power of Water
- pt. I. Flows of Power: Nature, Power, and the City
- 1. Hybrid Waters: On Water, Nature, and Society
- 2. The City in a Glass of Water: Circulating Water, Circulating Power
- 3. Water, Power, and the Andean City: Situating Guayaquil
- pt. II. Social Power and the Urbanization of Water in Guayaquil, Ecuador
- 4. The Urban Conquest of Water in Guayaquil: 1880-1945: Cocoa and the Urban Water Dream.