Spoil Island : Reading the Makeshift Archipelago.

By: Hailey, CharlieMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Toposophia: Sustainability, Dwelling, DesignPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780739173077Subject(s): Artificial islands -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) | Landscapes -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) | Physical geography -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) | Real estate development -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) | Urbanization -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) | Waste lands -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spoil Island : Reading the Makeshift ArchipelagoDDC classification: 333.73137097 LOC classification: GB124.A8 -- .H35 2013ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Makeshift -- Barge -- Natural and Infrastructural -- Rip-Rap -- Spiritual and Infrastructural -- Mound -- Public and Private -- Nettle -- Useful and Cultural -- Camp -- Rational and Irrational -- Spit -- Real and Surreal -- Sand -- Order and Disorder -- Barge -- Archipelago -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention. Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. Research navigates the U.S. east coast from New York City to Key West, examines these marginalized topographies to understand emergent concerns of 21st-century placemaking, public space, and infrastructure, and discovers that spoil islands constitute an unprecedented public commons, where human agency and nature are inextricably linked.
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Intro -- Title Page -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Makeshift -- Barge -- Natural and Infrastructural -- Rip-Rap -- Spiritual and Infrastructural -- Mound -- Public and Private -- Nettle -- Useful and Cultural -- Camp -- Rational and Irrational -- Spit -- Real and Surreal -- Sand -- Order and Disorder -- Barge -- Archipelago -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention. Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. Research navigates the U.S. east coast from New York City to Key West, examines these marginalized topographies to understand emergent concerns of 21st-century placemaking, public space, and infrastructure, and discovers that spoil islands constitute an unprecedented public commons, where human agency and nature are inextricably linked.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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