Drosscape

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568987132
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 256 pages
17,8 x 27,9 cm
colour
June 2007
€20,90 (excl. VAT)

Drosscape

Wasting Land in Urban America

Alan Berger, Lars Lerup

"Berger's well-researched current discourse about the inevitability and causal factors of sprawl extends to an analysis of ten urbanized regions, with three types of mapping termed by the author: entropic indicators, charting four categories of waste landscapes (infrastructure, obsolescence, exchange, and contamination); dispersal graphs, juxtaposing population density, distance from the 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." – Nathalie Westervelt, in Architecture