City of Flows

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City of Flows

Modernity, Nature, and the City

Interdisciplinary studies Urban communities Human geography

Author: Maria Kaika

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 27th December 2004

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 5 Mb

ISBN: 9781136797651


Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites

cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the case. Rather, nature and the modern city are fully intertwined, with cities integrating nature at

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