Kaika, Maria.

City of flows : modernity, nature, and the city / Maria Kaika. - New York : Routledge, 2005. - ix, 200 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references p. (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.

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Urbanization.
Nature and civilization.
Municipal water supply.

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