City of flows [electronic resource] : modernity, nature, and the city / Maria Kaika.

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.