03222cam a2200469 i 450000100090000000300170000900500170002600600190004300700120006200800410007401000170011502000260013203500240015804000920018204200140027405000210028808200180030910000350032724501020036226400460046430000300051033600260054050000470056650103430061350400410095652011020099753300660209965000300216565000250219565000250222065000290224565000420227465000220231665000680233865000510240665000550245765000480251265000510256065000560261165300280266770000570269521212485Urban Next Europ20221130120713.0a|||||q|||| 00| 0 cr an aaaaa190920s2021    nyuab   qb    000 0 eng d  a  2019950967  a9781638409120q(epub)  a(OCoLC)on1131892341  aERASAbengcERASAerdadOCLCQdYDXdBDXdOCLCQdYDXdOCLCOdGZNdOCLCOdOCLCFdPAUdDLC  alccopycat00aHT241b.M38 202104a307.1/2162231 aMasoud, Fadi,eauthordeditor.10aTerra-sorta-firma :breclaiming the littoral gradient /cby Fadi Masoud ; foreword by Brent Ryan. 1aNew York, NY :bActar Publishers,c[2021]  aone EPUB e-book (135.1MB)  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aStatement of responsibility from colophon.  aWith Contributions of :
Vince Beiser (Wired / NYTimes / The World in A Grain of Sand); Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck (Atelier NL);  Xiaoxuan Lu  (University of Hong Kong) ; Adam Grydehøj ( Island Dynamics); Ben Mendelson (University of Pennsylvania); Kian Goh (UCLA); Luna Khirfan  (University of Waterloo); Michael T. Wilson (RAND)  aIncludes bibliographical references.8 a"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. The five parts of the book question urbanism’s political, economic, and physical binary relationship to wet and dry grounds in search of a new understanding of land in a state of permanent flux.
This book 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."--bProvided by publisher.  aE-book.bBarcelona, SP.cActar Publishers.d2021.eEPUB file. 0aUrban ecology (Sociology) 0aReclamation of land. 0aCoastal settlements. 0aCoastal zone management. 0aCity planningxEnvironmental aspects. 0aFills (Earthwork) 7aCity planningxEnvironmental aspects.2fast0(OCoLC)fst00862209 7aCoastal settlements.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01741432 7aCoastal zone management.2fast0(OCoLC)fst00865756 7aFills (Earthwork)2fast0(OCoLC)fst00924238 7aReclamation of land.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01091410 7aUrban ecology (Sociology)2fast0(OCoLC)fst0173371800aEnergy & Sustainability1 aRyan, Brent D.,d1969-eauthor,ewriter of foreword.