Spoil island : reading the makeshift archipelago /

Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention. Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of land...

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Main Author:	Hailey, Charlie, 1970-
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2013]
Series:	Toposophia.
Subjects:	Physical geography > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Artificial islands > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Waste lands > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Urbanization > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Real estate development > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Landscapes > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Artificial islands > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Landscapes > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Physical geography > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Real estate development > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Urbanization > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Waste lands > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Electronic books.
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Summary:	Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention. Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. Research navigates the U.S. east coast from New York City to Key West, examines these marginalized topographies to understand emergent concerns of 21st-century placemaking, public space, and infrastructure, and discovers that spoil islands cons.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (337 pages) : maps.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780739173077 0739173073