ISBN:
0415947154
,
0415947162
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 200 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-2004
;
Abastecimiento de agua municipal
;
Eau - Approvisionnement urbain
;
Naturaleza y civilización
;
Nature et civilisation
;
Urbanisation
;
Urbanización
;
Verstädterung
;
Urbanization
;
Nature and civilization
;
Municipal water supply
;
Verstädterung
;
Wasserversorgung
;
Umweltnutzung
;
Verstädterung
;
Wasserversorgung
;
Umweltnutzung
;
Geschichte 1800-2004
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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