| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 311 p.) |
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Toposophia : sustainability, dwelling, design |
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Toposophia.
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Natural and infrastructural : building New York Harbor's islands of waste -- Spiritual and infrastructural : U Thant's East River island -- Public and private : the common wildness of Indian River's linear archipelago -- Useful and cultural : Peanut Island's mutinous landscapes -- Rational and irrational : developing Biscayne Bay's lagoon -- Real and surreal : surrounding Biscayne Bay's spoil islands -- Order and disorder : navigating Key West's western margin |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Physical geography -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
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Artificial islands -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
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Waste lands -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
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Urbanization -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
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Real estate development -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
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Landscapes -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Artificial islands
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Landscapes
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Physical geography
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Real estate development
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Urbanization
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Waste lands
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United States -- Atlantic Coast
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021678753 |
| ISBN |
9780739173077 |
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0739173073 |
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1299790283 |
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9781299790285 |
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0739173065 |
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0739185349 |
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9780739173060 |
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9780739185346 |
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