Product Description: A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North...read more

Product Description: Today home to over half of the world's population, cities determine the shape of our culture and our politics, and generate new relationships between nature, technology and the human body. This collection brings together a series of short essays on cities, urbanization and urban culture in the spirit of Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer...read more

Product Description: In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers...read more

Product Description: The dramatic increase since the 1980s in the global prevalence of tuberculosis, a disease destined as recently as thirty years ago for complete eradication, is a story of medical failure. A pandemic whose geography defies simple categorization, it ranges from schools in the UK to prisons in Russia, from refugee camps in central Africa to affluent suburbs in North America...read more

Using case studies from London, New York and Hamburg to illustrate how different urban centres are coping with the problem of waste disposal, this study explores the political and economic dilemmas involved. It also analyzes options for future recycling and waste reclamation operations.