Matthew Gandy. The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination.

Matthew Gandy is a geographer at University College London whose work focuses on cities, how they work, and how their workings are represented in art and literature. His first book, entitled Concrete and Clay (2002), about New York, won a prize. Since its appearance, he has published dozens of artic...

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Autores:
McNeill, John Robert
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2018
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/68215
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/68215
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/69248/
Palabra clave:
98 Historia general de América del Sur / History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds
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Summary:Matthew Gandy is a geographer at University College London whose work focuses on cities, how they work, and how their workings are represented in art and literature. His first book, entitled Concrete and Clay (2002), about New York, won a prize. Since its appearance, he has published dozens of articles and several edited books, and his output has earned him election to the British Academy. This latest book concerns six big cities at various points in their recent history: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.