Spoil Island Study
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Author | : Charlie Hailey |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739173073 |
Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness with human intervention. Although they are mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. To explore these islands, Spoil Island: Reading the Makeshift Archipelago navigates a course along the U.S. east coast, moving from New York City to Florida. Along the way, a general populace squats, picnics, and reflects on the islands, while other forces are also at work. New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses first deplores then adopts Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, UN Secretary General U Thant meditates on the East River’s Belmont Island, businessman John D. MacArthur rejects the purchase of Peanut Island, artist Christo surrounds Miami’s spoil islands, Key Westers debate the futures of two spoil islands that mark their sunset view, and artist Robert Smithson augments this archipelago materially and conceptually. Historical and contemporary stories highlight each island’s often contradictory ecologies that pair nature with infrastructure, public concerns with private development, rationalized urbanism with artistic impulse, and order with disorder. Spoil islands put you in places you normally wouldn’t—and perhaps shouldn’t—be. To examine these marginalized topographies is to understand emergent concerns of twenty-first-century place-making, public space, and natural and artificial infrastructure. Today, spoil islands constitute an unprecedented public commons, where human agency and nature are inextricably linked. Spoil Island will be of interest to anyone working in the areas of architecture, cultural history, cultural geography, environmental studies, or environmental philosophy. Linking the islands with their environmental aesthetics, Charlie Hailey provides a lively and critical topography of places that play a part in current events and local situations with global implications.
Author | : Indian River County (Fla.). Board of Commissioners |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Coastal zone management |
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Author | : Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council |
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Diana Barnes |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Islands |
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Author | : Bradley Neal Shoger |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
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Artificial turtle nests were used to examine relative differences in predation between different island and shoreline nesting habitats. Only islands [less than or equal]300 m from shore showed greater turtle nest survival than shoreline locations. This study documented wildlife use of freshwater lake spoil islands resulting from the influence of island and habitat characteristics. Inter-species influences were also examined. This study has expanded current knowledge of spoil island ecology and made recommendations for future island creation and research to benefit wildlife species on the islands.
Author | : Paul R. Carlson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 197? |
Genre | : Dredging |
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Author | : Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologist, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Dredging spoil |
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Author | : John W. Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2014 |
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Sabal palm, red cedar, Hercules' club, tough bumelia, live oak, sugar berry, red bay, black cherry, and sand live oak. Succession on barrens was accelerated by planting live oak seedlings and red bay seeds. Plastic tree shelters, organic matter and fertilizer treatments increased the growth of planted seedlings in barrens. Seedlings planted with mycorrhizae treatments of Pisolithus tinctorius and Astraeus hygrometricus were relatively smaller, despite producing fruiting bodies in one and two experimental blocks, respectively. Shelter, provided by forest edges, increased the germination and survivorship of planted red bay seeds. Based on this research, spoil islands are serving as refuges for maritime forest plant and animals and offer excellent opportunities to accelerate their transition into higher quality maritime forest communities.
Author | : Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologist, Inc |
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Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Dredging spoil |
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Author | : Linda Ann Merchant |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1986 |
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