wasting land in urban America Berger, Alan 1964- creator text bibliography nyu 2005 monographic eng spa

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255 p. col. ill. ; maps (some col.) ; 29 cm. 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 -- Alan Berger. Includes bibliographical references and index. City planning United States Vacant lands United States Waste lands United States Land use, Urban United States Regional planning United States HT167 B467 2006 307.1/2160973 9781568987132 156898572X 2005026156 pucpr 022811 20250912112316.0 eng