03492cam a2200529 i 4500 21212485 Urban Next Europ 20221130120713.0 a|||||q|||| 00| 0 cr an aaaaa 190920s2021 nyuab qb 000 0 eng d 2019950967 9781638409120 (epub) (OCoLC)on1131892341 ERASA eng ERASA rda OCLCQ YDX BDX OCLCQ YDX OCLCO GZN OCLCO OCLCF PAU DLC lccopycat HT241 .M38 2021 307.1/216 23 Masoud, Fadi, author editor. Terra-sorta-firma : reclaiming the littoral gradient / by Fadi Masoud ; foreword by Brent Ryan. New York, NY : Actar Publishers, [2021] one EPUB e-book (135.1MB) text txt rdacontent Statement of responsibility from colophon. With 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) Includes bibliographical references. "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."-- Provided by publisher. E-book. Barcelona, SP. Actar Publishers. 2021. EPUB file. Urban ecology (Sociology) Reclamation of land. Coastal settlements. Coastal zone management. City planning Environmental aspects. Fills (Earthwork) City planning Environmental aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00862209 Coastal settlements. fast (OCoLC)fst01741432 Coastal zone management. fast (OCoLC)fst00865756 Fills (Earthwork) fast (OCoLC)fst00924238 Reclamation of land. fast (OCoLC)fst01091410 Urban ecology (Sociology) fast (OCoLC)fst01733718 Energy & Sustainability Ryan, Brent D., 1969- author, writer of foreword. 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc CF 0 532 532 0 0 ddc 0 0 9876543210 9876543210 2022-11-30 0 2022-11-30 2022-11-30 CF