Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of Americas Built Environment (Geographical Perspectives on the Human Past)
by John A. Jakle, David Wilson
Category: Social Science

Jakle and Wilson present a portrait of various kinds of landscape dereliction in the US - disinvestment, underutilization, vacancy, abandonment, decay and degradation - and the cultural values that have underlain both personal and societal predispositions to be wasteful.