Terra-Sorta-Firma

129 · Terra-Sorta-Firma

Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient

Fadi Masoud

For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; “reclaiming” land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and sea-beds. 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. It challenges designers, developers, policymaker, 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.

Eds. Size Format ISBN Printed · EN ISBN Ebook · EN Price Fadi Masoud, Brent Ryan 7.4 x 10 in. / 19 x 25,5 cm Hardcover · 320 pages 978-1-94876-538-1 978-1-63840-912-0 $45.95 / €39 / £39

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