The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination

by Matthew Gandy

Book Overview

A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.

Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028255
• ISBN13: 9780262028257
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher