Spoil Island Reading the Makeshift Archipelago |
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Author:
| Hailey, Charlie |
Series title: | Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7391-7306-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $142.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionSpoil 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.