Abstract
An apparently inexorable march of progress towards a regulated, commodified, separate and hidden nature facilitates a process of capitalist accumulation and unproblematic consumption, and simplifies but alsofixes a single progressive and functional narrative around the memories of place. To begin to complicate this narrative we explore the role that a particular kind of knowledge, and its codification, might play in the memorialization of a much more nuanced, partial and contested urban process. Our focus is on hydraulic infrastructures in making modern cities and, in particular, how they have been represented in different kinds of maps over time.
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Dodge, M., Perkins, C. (2012). Maps, Memories and Manchester: The Cartographic Imagination of the Hidden Networks of the Hydraulic City. In: Roberts, L. (eds) Mapping Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137025050_6
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