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.
Autorentext
Maria Kaika is a tenured geography professor at Oxford University. She has written many articles and is very well regarded in the field.
Zusammenfassung
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 every level of activity. While her empirical focus is on Athens, she discusses other major cities in the West, including London and New York.
Inhalt
Acknowledgments, Part I, Part II, Epilogue, Endnotes, Index
Titel
City of Flows
Untertitel
Modernity, Nature, and the City
Autor
EAN
9781136797668
ISBN
978-1-136-79766-8
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
06.12.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
33.87 MB
Anzahl Seiten
216
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch
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