Terra-sorta-firma : reclaiming the littoral gradient / by Fadi Masoud with Brent Ryan [and nine others] ; edited by Fadi Masoud ; foreword by Brent Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masoud, Fadi, author.

Ryan, Brent D., 1969- author, writer of foreword.

Contributor:

Masoud, Fadi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Reclamation of land.

Coastal settlements.

Coastal zone management.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Fills (Earthwork).

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Actar Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

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

Notes:

Statement of responsibility from colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781948765381

1948765381

OCLC:

1131892341