City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the CityRoutledge, 2004 M12 27 - 216 páginas 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 |
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