City of flows : modernity, nature, and the city / / Maria Kaika.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 200 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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.