Manufactured Sites: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415243653 ISBN 13: 9780415243650

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2001

Synopsis

**This title was originally published in 2001. The version published in 2011 is a PB reprint of the original HB**

Manufactured Sites focuses on the legacy of industrial production and pollutants on the contemporary landscape and their influence on new scientific research, innovative site technologies and progressive site design. It presents innovative environmental, engineering and design approaches along with ongoing research and built projects of international significance. Contributions range from innovative scientific engineering research from industry and federal agencies to contemporary international and regional professional reclamation and redevelopment projects such as the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia and the A.G. Thyssen steelworks and blast furnace planning in Germany's Ruhr region.

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Review:

Overall, the value of this volume is in making a bold start at rethinking the postindustrial landscape - William J. Thompson, FASLA - Landscape Architecture, November 2001
Nevertheless, Manufactured Sites stands as an important contribution to the field of brownfield reclamation - Chris Read -Land Forum
...the volume offers an excellent overview of the environmental laws that govern site cleanup as well as case studies in landscape restoration - Deborah Snoonian -Architectural Record
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About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415243653
• ISBN 13: 9780415243650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Kirkwood Niall