Manufactured Sites: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape [Hardcover]

Niall Kirkwood (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415243653 | ISBN-13: 978-0415243650 | Publication Date: May 2, 2001 | Edition: 1

**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.

Editorial Reviews

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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (May 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415243653
• ISBN-13: 978-0415243650
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,746,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Panorama on wastelands landscape, April 12, 2004

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CARLOS LEITE (Sao Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Manufactured Sites: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape (Hardcover)

Niall Kirkwood has edited a very interesting panorama on the problems of wastelands and brownfields from the overview of the landscape researchers [what they insist in calling "manufactured sites"].
The book presents many well analysed study-cases and has a collection of theorethical texts produced by the editor and invited colleagues that covers many voids on this fundamental theme to better understand our complex and mutant cities.
We just remain intriguing on the resistant use by the authors on terms and concepts well developed by many expertises on the problem, mainly the architects: the "terrain vague" classic concept developed by the Catalan Ignaci de Solá-Morales; "wastelands" and "brownfields" by many American authors; "urban voids" used by many European thinkers [Koolhaas] to describe and analyse these residual spaces, usually derived from the post-industrial territory.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BOOK REVIEW: Landscape Architecture Review, November 2001, April 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Manufactured Sites: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape (Hardcover)

Adapted from the review by J. William Thompson

"This book is the proceedings of an extraordinary conference held at the Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the spring of 1998, organized by Niall Kirkwood, ASLA, a GSD professor and editor of this volume
The purpose of this book appears to be to provide a thoughtful overview of current approaches and issues that includes numerous case studies of actual sites, including such well-known brownfield redevelopments as Duisburg Nord in Germany, Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, and the Sydney Olympic's site.
Overall the value of this volume is in making a bold start at "rethinking the post-industrial landscape", as the subtitle suggests. Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the book is the gritty, substantive role it charts for landscape architects in brownfield reclamation"

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent State of the Art Book, November 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Manufactured Sites: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape (Hardcover)

'Manufactured Sites' edited by N. Kirkwood resulted from a conference in 1998 at Harvard that presented complex
contaminated industrial sites and their cleanup and reuse.
It assembles authorities on the science, engineering, planning and design of brownfields and other remediated
sites and is necessary for anyone involved in the reuse of these landscapes. Simply the only book addressing the intersection of different disciplines and fields who have to confront the legacy of the 20th century industrialization.