Review by Kelly Shannon, KU Leuven The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity and the Urban Imagination is a tour de force. Matthew Gandy, professor of cultural and historical geography and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University, has written a book on the intersections between water and the technological spaces of modernity through the lens of urban political ecology. The same year it was published, it was awarded the 2014 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography by the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Gandy provocatively combines an eclectic array of research materials, including scientific documents, archives, interviews, ethnographic observations, photographs and literature, and draws extensively on the history of technology, geography and film studies. There are seventy-seven pages of notes, interesting to read in themselves. His focus on the cultural and material significance of water_its evolving relations, nuanced between modernity, nature and the urban imagination_is enticingly explored through an ‘implied chronology’ (p. 24) of six megacities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles and London. In each case study, a different aspect of urban metabolism is underscored, highlighting a plethora of ‘changing attitudes toward the body, the politics of water and sanitation and the symbolic significance of water for modern cities’ (p. vii–viii). In the historically dissected whirlwind of urban metabolisms, Gandy substantiates his claim that hydraulic infrastructure is a primary agent in the production of space. His focus on the biopolitical dynamics and the interplay of urbanism, ecology, epidemiology and public works reveals a history of uneven development (both globally and within specific locations themselves). His work clearly builds on scholars such as Denis Cosgrove, William Cronon, Donald Worster, Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika, and many of their insights are folded into the book.

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空间结构：水、现代性和城市想象

Kelly Shannon 的评论，KU Leuven 空间的结构：水、现代性和城市想象是一个绝妙的地方。剑桥大学国王学院院士、文化和历史地理学教授马修·甘迪 (Matthew Gandy) 撰写了一本关于水与现代性技术空间通过城市政治生态学视角交叉的书。同年出版，获得美国地理学家协会 (AAG) 颁发的 2014 年经络图书杰出地理学术著作奖。Gandy 大胆地结合了一系列不拘一格的研究材料，包括科学文献、档案、访谈、人种学观察、照片和文学，并广泛借鉴了技术、地理和电影研究的历史。有七十七页的笔记，自己读起来很有趣。他对水的文化和物质意义的关注_其不断演变的关系，在现代性、自然和城市想象之间的细微差别_通过六个特大城市的“隐含年表”（第 24 页）进行了引人入胜的探索：巴黎、柏林、拉各斯、孟买、洛杉矶和伦敦。在每个案例研究中，都强调了城市新陈代谢的不同方面，突出了大量“对身体的态度、水和卫生设施的政治以及水对现代城市的象征意义”（p. vii–viii）。在历史上剖析城市新陈代谢的旋风中，甘迪证实了他的主张，即液压基础设施是空间生产的主要推动者。他专注于生物政治动态以及城市主义、生态学、流行病学和公共工程揭示了不平衡发展的历史（全球和特定地点本身）。他的工作显然建立在丹尼斯·科斯格罗夫、威廉·克罗农、唐纳德·沃斯特、埃里克·斯温格杜和玛丽亚·凯卡等学者的基础上，他们的许多见解都融入了书中。