Spoil Island - Hailey, Charlie
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Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention.Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. Research navigates the U.S. east coast from New York City to Key West, examines these marginalized topographies to understand emergent concerns of 21st-century placemaking, public space, and infrastructure, and discovers that spoil islands constitute an unprecedented public commons, where human agency and nature are inextricably linked.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention.Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. Research navigates the U.S. east coast from New York City to Key West, examines these marginalized topographies to understand emergent concerns of 21st-century placemaking, public space, and infrastructure, and discovers that spoil islands constitute an unprecedented public commons, where human agency and nature are inextricably linked.
Autorenporträt
Charlie Hailey teaches design, theory, and history in the University of Florida's School of Architecture. He is author of Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place (2008) and Camps: A Guide to 21st-century Space (2009).