Spoil Island: Reading the Makeshift Archipelago

By Charlie Hailey

Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention.Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. Research navigates the U.S. east coast from New York City to Key West, examines these marginalized topographies to understand emergent concerns of 21st-century placemaking, public space, and infrastructure, and discovers that spoil islands constitute an unprecedented public commons, where human agency and nature are inextricably linked.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739173065
• ISBN13: 9780739173060
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"