Terra-Sorta-Firma
Terra-Sorta-Firma: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient
by Fadi Masoud
Actar Publishers, June 2021
Hardcover | 7-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches | 324 pages | English | ISBN: 9781948765381 | $45.95
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
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. The five parts of the book question urbanism?s political, economic, and physical binary relationship to wet and dry grounds in search of a new understanding of land in a state of permanent flux. 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.
Fadi Masoud, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Toronto. His research, teaching, and design work focuses on establishing relationships between dynamic large-scale environmental sys...
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