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Drosscape : wasting land in urban America / Alan Berger ; with a postscript by Lars Lerup.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 255 p. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 156898572X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.12160973 22
LOC classification:
  • HT167 .B467 2005
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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