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 inundation.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword By Brent D. Ryan
- Introduction By Fadi Masoud
- I. Sand Narratives: Politics and Performance of Creating Artificial Terrains
- Global Sand Trade and the International Dredging Market
- Shoreline Management Catalogue
- The Land is Sand
- The Value of Sand
- II. Atlas: Urban District on Reclaimed Land
- Claiming Territory
- Venice
- Beemster Polder
- Flevopolder
- Malé
- Singapore
- Île Notre-Dame
- Treasure Island
- Key West
- Geologic Necessity
- Mexico City
- Amsterdam Centrum
- San Francisco Bay Area
- The Embarcadero
- Hong Kong + Kowloon
- Manhattan
- Mumbai
- Flamengo Park
- Solidere - Zaitunay Bay
- New Orleans
- Almere Centrum
- Flamboyant Real-Estate
- Lusail
- The Pearl
- Dubai Waterfront
- Biscayne Bay Islands +Miami Beach
- Bayou Vista + Tiki Island
- Forest City
- Songdo
- Eko Atlantic City
- Jakarta Waterfront
- Abu Dhabi Waterfront
- Jurong Island
- Landscaped Brownfields
- Back Bay Fens
- Toronto Waterfront
- Sørenga + Aker Brygge
- Barangaroo
- The Battery + Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Hammarby Sjöstad
- Cinta Costera
- False Creek
- Borneo Sporenburg
- Kalvebod Brygge
- Blue Collar /Brown Water
- Port of Rotterdam
- Tokyo Bay
- Royal Docks Silvertown
- Kobe
- Osaka Bay
- Belfast Harbour
- Port of Los Angeles
- Zeebrugge
- III. The Chinese Sub-Atlas
- Case Selection and Infographic Analysis
- China and Her Return to the Ocean
- Project Duration and Completion
- Project Agents
- Sequencing
- Programming
- Caofeidian
- Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City
- Nanhui/Lingang
- Qianhai
- Phoenix Island
- IV. Essays: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient
- Land Reclamation in Island Cities and the Enclosure of Public Space
- Charlottetown?s Climate Adaptation: Reclaiming Land ?From? or ?For? Water?
- Global Garden City: Trans-Territorial Ecologies in Singapore
- Beyond Binaries in Urban Coastal Futures: The Case of Lagos - Nigeria
- Boston?s Shifting Ground in a Changing Climate
- Landscape Resilience Frameworks for Urbanism on Reclaimed Land
- Authors
- Credits
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