{"product_id":"terra-sorta-firma-fadi-masoud-9781948765381","title":"Terra-Sorta-Firma: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; \"reclaiming\" land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It challenges designers, developers, policymakers, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fadi Masoud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948765381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948765381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Actar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 7.80w x 1.20d","brand":"Fadi Masoud","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046479098111,"sku":"9781948765381","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7bb287a0-52ff-4d54-be42-21ab6765cc41.jpg?v=1684984782","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/terra-sorta-firma-fadi-masoud-9781948765381","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}