ABSTRACT

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

part |2 pages

Part I

chapter 1|8 pages

Preface: Visions of Modernization

chapter 3|24 pages

The Phantasmagoria of the Modernist Dream

chapter 4|26 pages

Nature as the Urban Uncanny

part |2 pages

Part II