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Dross City: Urban Metabolism Resilence and Drosscapes Recycling Project
ISBN: PB: 9788899854195, Bookport, ListLab, July 2020
334 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus.
Dross is waste: solid impurities that form on the surface of the smelting pot. While most is thrown away, some is reusable or recyclable. Hence 'DrossScape', a term conceived by land economist Alan Berger. Working off Berger's theories, this book exp...
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Camp and the City Territories of Extraction
ISBN: PB: 9788898774753, Bookport, ListLab, September 2017
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, colour illus.
Urbanization metabolizes territories surrounding cities as well as territories that are located far beyond the centers themselves and provide the needed resources and goods. Landscapes of extraction are probably one of the most evident examples of th...
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New Water Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9788895623528, Bookport, ListLab, August 2016
160 pp., 20.3x14 cm, colour illus.
Once, water defined the layout and structure of many cities and their architecture. These cities existed in symbiosis with water itself: depending on it and developing alongside it. Over time however, scientific techniques and progresses introduced s...
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Toward an Atlas of the European Delta Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788895623870, Bookport, ListLab, August 2016
143 pp., 20.3x17.1 cm, colour illus.
This book examines a number of European terriories that are both fragile and affected by climate change. These characteristics – one inherent to the regions under study, the other caused by their transformation over time – produce significant effects...
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