03094nam 22006613 450 991082654290332120230630001857.01-63840-912-9(CKB)4100000011816890(MiAaPQ)EBC6526568(Au-PeEL)EBL6526568(OCoLC)1244627990(EXLCZ)99410000001181689020210901d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTerra-Sorta-Firma Reclaiming the Littoral GradientNew York City :Actar D,2021.©2021.1 online resource (326 pages)1-948765-38-1 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 inundationTerra-Sorta-FirmaUrban ecology (Sociology)Reclamation of landCoastal settlementsCoastal zone managementCity planningEnvironmental aspectsFills (Earthwork)City planningEnvironmental aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00862209Coastal settlementsfast(OCoLC)fst01741432Coastal zone managementfast(OCoLC)fst00865756Fills (Earthwork)fast(OCoLC)fst00924238Reclamation of landfast(OCoLC)fst01091410Urban ecology (Sociology)fast(OCoLC)fst01733718Urban ecology (Sociology)Reclamation of land.Coastal settlements.Coastal zone management.City planningEnvironmental aspects.Fills (Earthwork)City planningEnvironmental aspects.Coastal settlements.Coastal zone management.Fills (Earthwork)Reclamation of land.Urban ecology (Sociology)307.1/216Masoud Fadi1705871MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910826542903321Terra-Sorta-Firma4092919UNINA