Berger, Alan,  1964- <br/><br/>
Drosscape :  wasting land in urban America / 
Alan Berger ; with a postscript by Lars Lerup. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - 255 p. ;  29 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>156898572X (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005026156 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>City planning--United States<br/>Regional planning--United States<br/>Land use, Urban--United States<br/>Waste lands--United States<br/>Vacant lands--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT167  / .B467 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.12160973