Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America is your guide to the vast, hitherto largely ignored field of waste landscapes.
Landscape architects must learn to accommodate these wastelands along with the more traditional challenges of site and construction. This will require a radical reconceptualization of thinking about landscape before potential solutions can be effectively addressed or devised. Ten cities are examined both visually and analytically through the use of aerial photography and geospatially derived maps, charts, and graphs.
Lured by tax incentives and the benefits of inadequate public awareness, corporate America is rapidly developing these toxic sites. It is our right to know about these danger zones underneath our communities and our duty to stay vigilant. Drosscape makes clear it is also a design challenge of the most pressing order.
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"Dross is integral to the urban landscape. The holes are part of the whole"
"Bergers well-researched current discourse about the inevitability and causal factors of sprawl extends to an analysis of 10 urbanized regions, with three types of mapping termed by the author: entropic indicators, charting four categories of waste landscapes (infrastructure, obsolence, exchange, and contamination); dispersal graphs, juxtaposing population density, distance from teh city center, and changes in urbanization patterns; and spindle charts, setting the decline and growth of industry within the context of its distance from the city center."
