Periodicities and metabolisms -- The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space -- Borrowed light: journeys through Weimar Berlin -- Mosquitoes, modernity, and post-colonial Lagos -- Water, poverty, and urban fragmentation in Mumbai -- Tracing the Los Angeles River -- Fears, fantasies, and floods : the inundation of London

1. Water resources development
2. Sewerage
3. Water use -- Social aspects
4. Municipal water supply -- Economic aspects
5. City and town life
6. Urban ecology (Sociology)