Terra-Sorta-Firma

Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient

Fadi Masoud, Brent Ryan

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English

Actar Publishers
24 August 2021

Landscape art & architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions; Wildlife: general interest

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.

Edited by: Fadi Masoud, Brent Ryan
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 190mm,
ISBN: 9781948765381
ISBN 10: 1948765381
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 24 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Terra-Sorta-Firma: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient

This book 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. --John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture