reclaiming the littoral gradient Masoud, Fadi editor creator author Ryan, Brent D. 1969- author, writer of foreword. text bibliography nyu 2021 monographic eng one EPUB e-book (135.1MB) "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. by Fadi Masoud ; foreword by Brent Ryan. 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. 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 Coastal settlements Coastal zone management Fills (Earthwork) Reclamation of land Urban ecology (Sociology) Energy & Sustainability HT241 .M38 2021 307.1/216 9781638409120 2019950967 ERASA 190920 20221130120713.0 21212485 eng