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9781948765381: Terra-Sorta-Firma: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient
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ISBN 10 : 1948765381 ISBN 13 : 9781948765381
Editeur : Actar Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline.

For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; "reclaiming" land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Terra-Sorta-Firma documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories. It renders visible the ubiquity and precarity of urban coastal reclamation in an age of increased environmental and economic indeterminacy.

It challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider the design and construction of land itself, and to re-imagine this most fundamental of all infrastructures along a gradient of inundation.

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Éditeur
Actar Publishers
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1948765381
ISBN 13 
9781948765381
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
Éditeur
Masoud Fadi, Ryan Brent
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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