
Third Coast Atlas
Prelude to a Plan
- 352 pages
- English
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Third Coast Atlas
Prelude to a Plan
About this book
Measuring over 10, 000 miles, the Great Lakes coastline, known as the "third coast, " is longer than the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines of the United States combined. It is difficult to overstate the history and future of the region as both a contested and opportunistic site for urbanism. Envisaged as a comprehensive "atlas, " this publication comprises in-depth analysis of the landscapes, hydrology, infrastructure, urban form, and ecologies of the region, delivered through a series of analytical cartographies supported by scholarly and design research from internationally renowned scholars, photographers, and practitioners from the disciplines of architecture, landscape, geography, planning, and ecology.This publication was awarded with a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: Fluid Ecologies, Fluid Economies
- PORTFOLIO NASA
- PROJECTIONS
- PORTFOLIO Robert Burley
- POTENTIALS
- Regionalization
- Living in the Glacial Afterlife
- Shed Cartographies
- Coastal Portage
- Reclaiming the Littoral
- Cutting the Corporate Lawn
- The Longest Undefended Border
- Inhabiting the Water Cycle
- The Great Salt Deposit
- The Great Waste State
- Fresh Water Planning
- A 100-Year Vision
- PORTFOLIO Edward Burtynsky
- PROFILES
- PORTFOLIO Alex MacLean
- PROSPECTS
- CHICAGO First City of the Third Coast
- MILWAUKEE Repositioning the Inner Harbor
- GRAND RAPIDS Made
- DETROIT Locating the Un-city
- TOLEDO Bubbling up from the Great Black Samp
- CLEVELAND Vacancy, Hydrology, Redevelopment
- BUFFALO The Imagination of Water
- TORONTO Good is Gone, Fine is Just Perfect
- ROCHESTER Smugtown Sprawls
- SYRACUSE As Built
- OTTAWA Power on the Third Coast
- MONTREAL Blue Collars, Green Corridors, Post-industrial Waterways
- PORTFOLIO Mapping the Third Coast, 1643-1837
- PLANS
- PORTFOLIO US Lake Survey, 1849-1879
- Credits
- Contributors
- Index