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Discover a pivotal addition to your library with *Terra-Sorta-Firma*, a groundbreaking exploration of the world's transforming coastlines. This brand new hardcover edition, with ISBN 9781948765381, delves deep into the critical and interdisciplinary study of our continuously urbanizing coastal landscapes. Published by Actar D in 2021, this book offers a comprehensive examination of how cities expand onto previously submerged grounds, effectively reclaiming land from natural ecosystems like estuaries, marshes, and seabeds.
As urban coastal reclamation becomes increasingly prevalent, this insightful work sheds light on the enormous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments that accompany these changes. However, these artificial coastlines are also at the highest risk of climate change impacts. *Terra-Sorta-Firma* meticulously documents the global reach of these reclaimed lands, presenting an invaluable comparative framework across diverse geographies, cultures, and histories.
By revealing the complexities and vulnerabilities of our coastal futures, it challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider not only the creation of land but also the deeper implications of such infrastructures amidst rising environmental uncertainties. Embrace a new understanding of urban coastal dynamics and the significance of sustainable infrastructure in our climate-affected world.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781948765381
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2021
Publisher: Actar D
Description:
A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanising 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.
As urban coastal reclamation becomes increasingly prevalent, this insightful work sheds light on the enormous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments that accompany these changes. However, these artificial coastlines are also at the highest risk of climate change impacts. *Terra-Sorta-Firma* meticulously documents the global reach of these reclaimed lands, presenting an invaluable comparative framework across diverse geographies, cultures, and histories.
By revealing the complexities and vulnerabilities of our coastal futures, it challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider not only the creation of land but also the deeper implications of such infrastructures amidst rising environmental uncertainties. Embrace a new understanding of urban coastal dynamics and the significance of sustainable infrastructure in our climate-affected world.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781948765381
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2021
Publisher: Actar D
Description:
A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanising 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.