City of flows : modernity, nature, and the city - Kaika, Maria (New York : Routledge, 2004)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Urbanization; Nature and civilization; Municipal water supply