Characterized as "extreme sites,""brownfields" refer to the garbage landfills, great water thoroughfares, and areas made toxic through a combination of urbanism, industry, and science. Extreme Sites: The Greening of Brownsites examines the issue of reclaiming such areas, not from the usual perspective of economics and litigation, but rather from a conceptual framework of landscape, urbanism, and culture. In the tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, this landmark work brings together from a multiplicity of viewpoints and disciplines those in the vanguard of the field.…mehr
Characterized as "extreme sites,""brownfields" refer to the garbage landfills, great water thoroughfares, and areas made toxic through a combination of urbanism, industry, and science. Extreme Sites: The Greening of Brownsites examines the issue of reclaiming such areas, not from the usual perspective of economics and litigation, but rather from a conceptual framework of landscape, urbanism, and culture. In the tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, this landmark work brings together from a multiplicity of viewpoints and disciplines those in the vanguard of the field.
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Autorenporträt
Deborah Gans is principal of New York-based architecture practice Gans & Jelacic and an Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, New York.
Inhaltsangabe
Editorial (Helen Castle).
Introduction (Deborah Gans and Claire Weisz).
Portland Oregon: The New World of Urban Redevelopment (Matthew Jelacic).
The 'Brown' and the Contradictory: An Interview with Renzo Piano (Amy Lelyveld).
No Here There: Designing No Place (Ted Cavanagh and Alison Evans ).
The Rivers View: In the Space of the Thames (Mark Yoes and Claire Weisz).
Slum Networking Along the Indore River (Himanshu Parikh).
Water Log: Observations on a Former Flood Plain in Northern Syria (Denise Hoffman).
The Sky Above and the Ground Below Emscher (Deborah Gans).
Strategies for Extreme Conditions: The Emscher Park International Building Exhibition (Peter Zlonicky).
Arch Intimacy (Matthew Jelacic).
Michael Sorkin Studio: Sudraum Leipzig 1994 (Michael Sorkin).
Ayalon Park (Laura Starr).
The New Slum Urbanism of Caracas, Invasions and Settlements Colonialism, Democracy, Capitalism and Devil Worship (Carlos Brillembourg).
The Refugee Camp: Ecological Disaster of Today, Metropolis of Tomorrow (Deborah Gans and Matthew Jalacic).
Browning Maps (Deborah Gans and Denise Hoffman).
Tenting on the Terra Nullius: The Work of Glenn Murcutt (Amy Lelyveld).
Interior Eye Now Hear This (Craig Kellogg).
Building Profile Bedford School Library (Jeremy Melvin).
How Green is Your Garden? (C J Lim).
Practice Profile Sergison Bates Architects (Lucy Bullivant).
After the Festival Before Rock'n'Roll (David Heathcote).
Site Lines 'Lacking The Lack': The Museum of the History of the Hellenic World, Athens (Nikos Georgiadis).
Portland Oregon: The New World of Urban Redevelopment (Matthew Jelacic).
The 'Brown' and the Contradictory: An Interview with Renzo Piano (Amy Lelyveld).
No Here There: Designing No Place (Ted Cavanagh and Alison Evans ).
The Rivers View: In the Space of the Thames (Mark Yoes and Claire Weisz).
Slum Networking Along the Indore River (Himanshu Parikh).
Water Log: Observations on a Former Flood Plain in Northern Syria (Denise Hoffman).
The Sky Above and the Ground Below Emscher (Deborah Gans).
Strategies for Extreme Conditions: The Emscher Park International Building Exhibition (Peter Zlonicky).
Arch Intimacy (Matthew Jelacic).
Michael Sorkin Studio: Sudraum Leipzig 1994 (Michael Sorkin).
Ayalon Park (Laura Starr).
The New Slum Urbanism of Caracas, Invasions and Settlements Colonialism, Democracy, Capitalism and Devil Worship (Carlos Brillembourg).
The Refugee Camp: Ecological Disaster of Today, Metropolis of Tomorrow (Deborah Gans and Matthew Jalacic).
Browning Maps (Deborah Gans and Denise Hoffman).
Tenting on the Terra Nullius: The Work of Glenn Murcutt (Amy Lelyveld).
Interior Eye Now Hear This (Craig Kellogg).
Building Profile Bedford School Library (Jeremy Melvin).
How Green is Your Garden? (C J Lim).
Practice Profile Sergison Bates Architects (Lucy Bullivant).
After the Festival Before Rock'n'Roll (David Heathcote).
Site Lines 'Lacking The Lack': The Museum of the History of the Hellenic World, Athens (Nikos Georgiadis).
Book Reviews.
Book Club.
Rezensionen
"...a considerable amount to interest anyone yearning to see imaginative design placed at the heart of contaminated land redevelopment..." (Contaminated Land Management, June 04)
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