City of Flows
Modernity, Nature, and the City| By: | Maria Kaika |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415947169 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136797651 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2005 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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