Third coast atlas
Subtitle: prelude to a plan
By: editors, Daniel Ibañez, Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, Mason White
Publisher: Actar
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781940291918
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Urbanization; Regional planning; Urban policy; Cities and towns; Maps
Other titles: Prelude to a plan
Description: "Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan describes the conditions for urbanization across the Great Lakes region. It assembles a multi-layered, empirical description of urbanization processes within the drainage basins of the five Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River. This thick description encompasses a range of representational forms including maps, plans, diagrams, timelines, and photographs, as well as speculative design research projects and critical texts. Postponing diagnosis, let alone treatment of these conditions, Third Coast Atlas aspires to simply describe. It proposes a new geographic gestalt for urban analysis. Superimposed upon the North American continent, and with easily recognizable yet divergent political and geological borders, this megaregion traverses portions of eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, as well as the world's largest collection of surficial fresh water. Third Coast Atlas characterizes the littoral edge as a distinct field of urbanization, and constructs a reading of the region both specific and speculative." --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.