1st Edition

City of Flows Modernity, Nature, and the City

By Maria Kaika Copyright 2005
216 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Acknowledgments, Part I, Part II, Epilogue, Endnotes, Index

Biography

Maria Kaika is a tenured geography professor at Oxford University. She has written many articles and is very well regarded in the field.