Drosscape : wasting land in urban America. / Alan Berger. txt

Por:

Berger, Alan, 1964-

Idioma: Español New York : Princeton Architectural Press , 2006Descripción: 255 p. col. ill. ; maps (some col.) ; 29 cmTipo de contenido:

text

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unmediaded

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volume

ISBN:

9781568987132
156898572X

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Clasificación CDD:

307.1/2160973 22

Clasificación LoC:

HT167 B467 2006

Contenidos:

Contents: 12 Preface -- 15 Acknowledgments -- 16 Part One : Landscape, Urbanization and Waste -- 18 The Changing Nature of Urban Land -- 21 The Obsolescence of Sprawl -- 26 Chapter One : Discourses for Landscape and Urbanization -- 26 The Horizontal City and the In Between -- 29 A Liminal Landscape -- 31 Enclaves, Off Worlds, Ladders -- 33 Terrain Vague, Exaptation, Vacant, Abandoned -- 37 Holey Planes and Stimdross -- 39 From In Between to Freedom and Waste -- 44 Coda: Urban Landscape is a Natural Thing to Waste -- 46 Chapter Two : The Production of Waste Landscape -- 46 Deindustrialization: Waste Landscape Through Attrition -- 53 Post Fordism: Waste Landscape Through Accumulation -- 53 Flexibility -- 56 Agglomeration and Regionalism -- 57 Local and Regional Agglomerations -- 58 Technological Innovation and Location: Waste Landscape and Space -- 61 Flows -- 64 Contamination, Ugliness, and Blight: Revaluing Waste Landscape -- 66 Federal Activity -- 67 Denver: America's Superfund City -- 70 Brownfields -- 72 Funding -- 74 Ugliness, Blight, and Tax Increment Financing -- 76 Part Two : Representing the Relationships between Waste Landscape and Urbanization -- 78 Chapter Three : Ten Urbanized Regions -- 80 Atlanta -- 86 Boston Lowell / Providence -- 92 Charlotte / Raleigh Durham -- 98 Chicago -- 104 Cleveland / Akron -- 110 Dallas / Fort Worth -- 116 Denver / Front Range -- 122 Houston -- 128 Los Angeles -- 134 Phoenix -- 140 Chapter Four : Waste Landscapes -- 140 Waste Landscapes of Dwelling (LODs) -- 158 Waste Landscapes of Transition (LOTs) -- 170 Waste Landscapes of Infrastructure (LINs) -- 186 Waste Landscapes of Obsolescence (LOOs) -- 204 Waste Landscapes of Exchange (LEXs) -- 220 Waste Landscapes of Contamination (LOCOs) -- 234 Part Three : The Drosscape Manifesto -- 236 Chapter Five : Drosscape Explained -- 236 Drosscape Defined -- 239 Drosscape Proposed -- 242 Postscript: Vastlands Visited by Lars Lerup -- 244 Appendix One: Contemporary Names for the Urbanization of Landscape -- 245 Appendix Two: Notes on Graphics: Data Uses, Sources, and Methods -- 248 Dispersal Graph Comparison -- 250 Spindle Chart Comparison -- 252 Figure and Caption Sources -- 253 Index --

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Do you really know what is under that new house you just bought? How about what lies beneath the neighborhood playground? Was that "big box" retailer down your street built atop a toxic site? Will the warehouse just beyond your backyard be converted into a shopping center, factory, or trucking hub? These are just 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 peripheryplaces Alan Berger has coined "drosscapes." Now available in paperback, Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America is your guide to this vast, hitherto largely ignored field of waste landscapes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
12 Preface --
15 Acknowledgments --
16 Part One : Landscape, Urbanization and Waste --
18 The Changing Nature of Urban Land --
21 The Obsolescence of Sprawl --
26 Chapter One : Discourses for Landscape and Urbanization --
26 The Horizontal City and the In Between --
29 A Liminal Landscape --
31 Enclaves, Off Worlds, Ladders --
33 Terrain Vague, Exaptation, Vacant, Abandoned --
37 Holey Planes and Stimdross --
39 From In Between to Freedom and Waste --
44 Coda: Urban Landscape is a Natural Thing to Waste --
46 Chapter Two : The Production of Waste Landscape --
46 Deindustrialization: Waste Landscape Through Attrition --
53 Post Fordism: Waste Landscape Through Accumulation --
53 Flexibility --
56 Agglomeration and Regionalism --
57 Local and Regional Agglomerations --
58 Technological Innovation and Location: Waste Landscape and Space --
61 Flows --
64 Contamination, Ugliness, and Blight: Revaluing Waste Landscape --
66 Federal Activity --
67 Denver: America's Superfund City --
70 Brownfields --
72 Funding --
74 Ugliness, Blight, and Tax Increment Financing --
76 Part Two : Representing the Relationships between Waste Landscape and Urbanization --
78 Chapter Three : Ten Urbanized Regions --
80 Atlanta --
86 Boston Lowell / Providence --
92 Charlotte / Raleigh Durham --
98 Chicago --
104 Cleveland / Akron --
110 Dallas / Fort Worth --
116 Denver / Front Range --
122 Houston --
128 Los Angeles --
134 Phoenix --
140 Chapter Four : Waste Landscapes --
140 Waste Landscapes of Dwelling (LODs) --
158 Waste Landscapes of Transition (LOTs) --
170 Waste Landscapes of Infrastructure (LINs) --
186 Waste Landscapes of Obsolescence (LOOs) --
204 Waste Landscapes of Exchange (LEXs) --
220 Waste Landscapes of Contamination (LOCOs) --
234 Part Three : The Drosscape Manifesto --
236 Chapter Five : Drosscape Explained --
236 Drosscape Defined --
239 Drosscape Proposed --
242 Postscript: Vastlands Visited by Lars Lerup --
244 Appendix One: Contemporary Names for the Urbanization of Landscape --
245 Appendix Two: Notes on Graphics: Data Uses, Sources, and Methods --
248 Dispersal Graph Comparison --
250 Spindle Chart Comparison --
252 Figure and Caption Sources --
253 Index --

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Publishers Weekly Review

Before readers hit the title page of this heavily illustrated if scattershot treatise, they'll see the following line alone on a page of brown paper: "Drosscapes accumulate in the wake of the socio- and spatio-economic processes of deindustrialization, post-Fordism, and technological innovation." Readers, however, will have to wait until the end of the book for Berger to offer a working definition of drosscape ("a design pedagogy that emphasizes the productive integration and reuse of waste landscapes throughout the urban world," or "the creation of a new condition in which ?vast,' ?waste,' or ?wasteful' land surfaces are modeled in accordance with new programs or new sets of values that remove or replace real or perceived wasteful aspects of geographical space"). Such roundabout writing, typeset in a stark sans serif font, will keep most readers-even those with a more than passing interest in issues of sprawl, waste-land, development, urban planning or the environmental consequences of industrialization-at bay. However, the dozens of charts, maps and aerial photographs, which depict urban sprawl and patterns of land usage-both wise and wasteful-are telling and place a much-needed real-world foil on the author's halting prose. Photos. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Alan Berger is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is also the author of Reclaiming the American West (2002).

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