Urban Districts on Reclaimed Land

Data, Fadi Masoud, Imminent Urban Commons, Middle Density, Terra-Sorta-Firma, Territory and mobility

Agriculture, Belgium, Canada, China, Construction, Cultural identity, Data, Dubai, Housing market, Industrial context, Infrastructure, Japan, Land management, Maldives, Mapping, Masterplan, Network, New technologies, Norway, Political & Economic Approach, Public Space, Qatar, Real Estate, Research, Sea Level Rise, Social impact, Sustainability, The Netherlands, Tourism, Urban Development, Urban Legacy, USA, Waterfront, Watery Territory

This research is an excerpt of Terra-Sorta-Firma by Fadi Masoud, published by Actar Publishers -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2019950967

Land reclamation has been a part of urban expansion and transformation for centuries. In most cases it was deemed a necessity and systematically linked to broader hydrological and infrastructural networks in other, more recent cases it is a speculative real-estate practice that results in outlandish formal schemes. The Atlas showcases projects or districts from a diverse global and historical perspective. The Atlas illustrates the progression of each site, and traces it back from its current condition to its original hydrological state (pre-infill), highlighting each district’s socio-economic, architectural, infrastructural, and cultural contexts.