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Title

Drosscape : wasting land in urban America / Alan Berger.

Author

Berger, Alan, 1964-

Publication

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2006.

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Description

255 p. : col. ill., maps (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Do you really know what's under the new house you just bought? Was that "big box" retailer down your street built over a toxic site? Will the warehouse just beyond your backyard be converted into a shopping center, factory, or trucking hub. These are a few of the worrisome scenarios facing us all as our cities begin a stealth relocation of industrial facilities from the inner city to the urban periphery and to reuse old toxic waste sites while creating new ones - places Alan Berger has coined drosscapes. Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America is your guide to this vast, unknown geography of waste landscapes and sprawl." "Ten cities and their drosscapes are analyzed through aerial photography, maps, charts, and graphs. Lured by liability reductions, tax incentives, and inadequate public awareness, corporate America is rapidly developing land for short-term gains and occupancy, leaving us to clean up their toxic land, wasteful places, and degradation of natural systems. Drosscape makes clear that "waste" is a design challenge of the most pressing order."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Wasting land in urban America

Subject

• City planning > United States
• Regional planning > United States
• Land use, Urban > United States
• Brownfields > United States
• Waste lands > United States
• Vacant lands > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Landscape, urbanization, and waste : The changing nature of urban land ; The obsolescence of sprawl -- 1. Discourses for landscape and urbanization : The horizontal city and the "in-between" ; A liminal landscape ; Enclaves, off worlds, ladders ; Terrain vague, exaptation, vacant, abandoned ; Holey planes and stimdross ; From "in-between" to freedom and waste ; Coda: urban landscape is a natural thing to waste -- 2. The production of waste landscape : Deindustrialization: waste landscape through attrition ; Post-Fordism: waste landscape through accumulation : Flexibility ; Agglomeration and regionalism ; Local and regional agglomerations ; Technological innovation and location: waste landscape and space : Flows ; Contamination, ugliness, and blight: revaluing waste landscape ; Federal activity ; Denver: America's superfund city ; Brownfields ; Funding ; Ugliness, blight, and tax increment financing -- Part II. Representing the relationships of waste landscape and urbanization : 3. Ten urbanized regions : Atlanta ; Boston-Lowell/Providence ; Charlotte/Raleigh-Durham ; Chicago ; Cleveland/Akron ; Dallas-Fort Worth ; Denver/Front Range ; Houston ; Los Angeles ; Phoenix -- 4: Waste landscapes : Waste landscapes of dwelling (LODs) ; Waste landscapes of transition (LOTs) ; Waste landscapes of infrastructure (LINs) ; Waste landscapes of obsolescence (LOOs) ; Waste landscapes of exchange (LEXs) ; Waste landscapes of contamination (LOCOs) -- Part 3. The drosscape manifesto : 5: Drosscape explained : Drosscape defined ; Drosscape proposed -- Postscript: Vastlands visited by Lars Lerup -- Appendix 1: Contemporary names for the urbanization of landscapes -- Appendix 2: Notes on graphics: data uses, sources, and methods -- Dispersal graph comparison -- Spindle chart comparison.

ISBN

• 156898572X (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781568985725
• 1568987137
• 9781568987132

LCCN

^^2005026156

OCLC

• 61479585
• SCSB-11324250

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library