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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Berger |
| ISBN: | 156898572X 9781568985725 1568987137 9781568987132 |
| OCLC Number: | 61479585 |
| Description: | 255 p. : col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Alan Berger. |
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