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Spoil island : reading the makeshift archipelago /
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 land...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2013.
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| Colección: | Toposophia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 cons. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 311 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739173077 0739173073 1299790283 9781299790285 0739173065 0739185349 9780739173060 9780739185346 |