Drosscape : wasting land in urban America. / txt
Alan Berger.
- 255 p. col. ill. ; maps (some col.) ; 29 cm. book
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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City planning--United States. Vacant lands--United States. Waste lands--United States. Land use, Urban--United States. Regional planning--United States.