From fallow : 100 ideas for abandoned urban landscapes / text: Jill Desimini ; foreword: Daniel D'Oca ; afterword: Julia Czerniak

Author: Desimini, Jill
Additional Titles: 100 ideas for abandoned urban landscapes and One hundred ideas for abandoned urban landscapes
Published: [Novato, Calif.] : ORO Editions, [2019]
Copyright Date: ©2019
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: 345 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 21 cm
Additional Creators: D'Oca, Daniel and Czerniak, Julia

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Contents

Leave it -- Find water -- Produce energy -- Cultivate plants -- Lure animals -- Grow crops -- Bring people -- Embrace people. -- Play games -- Store materials -- Form property.

Summary

From Fallow is a curated collection of 100 ideas for abandoned property. Through drawing and text each idea is elaborated and each entry serves both as documentation and speculation. The intention, here, is to think differently about pre-existing conditions and to be particular about them. Examples are offered of different spatial characteristics around abandonment in North American legacy cities. The variations are mesmerisingly complicated and varied. A vacant lot is never one thing. Terrains have different scales, elevations, adjacencies, uses, climates and cultures. And just as no one territory is the same, so no one idea is sufficient. The goal, in considering these disparate ideas, is not to imagine any singular solution but to understand the many possibilities. Ideas can be tested, substituted and combined.

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ISBN

9781940743981 (paperback)
1940743982 (paperback)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-345).

Documentation Information

Place of publication from ORO Editions website: https://www.oroeditions.com/contact

Endowment Note

Class of 1968 Libraries Program Endowment

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