Gandy, Matthew.

The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / Matthew Gandy. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014. - x, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-337) and index.

Periodicities and metabolisms -- The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space -- Borrowed light: journeys through Weimar Berlin -- Mosquitoes, modernity, and post-colonial Lagos -- Water, poverty, and urban fragmentation in Mumbai -- Tracing the Los Angeles River -- Fears, fantasies, and floods : the inundation of London.

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Water resources development.
Sewerage.
Water use--Social aspects.
Municipal water supply--Economic aspects.
City and town life.
Urban ecology (Sociology)

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