Reclaiming the American West

by Alan Berger

Book Overview

There are over 200,000 abandoned mines covering hundreds of thousands of acres in the western United States. Seen from the air, they create surreal, haunting, yet somehow beautiful landscapes of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156898362X
• ISBN13: 9781568983622
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.4" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

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this book has some of the best graphics that a student could use to develop their projects

Post Technological Landscape

This book is the first book I have read in the past 5 years that is so visually captivating I could not put it down. Berger uses his own gorgeous aerial and ground photographs, and visionary mapping techniques to show the world a new type of landscape that is being produced via landscape devastation and reclamation. He coins a new term -Post Technological Landscape-to describe the artificial landscapes being formed by humans in the post-mined areas of the western U.S. An introduction to the book, by the enigmatic poet Frederick Turner, also helps define this term. There is a very interesting,if not dry, appendix that reveals how each western state technically defines the term "reclamation" and what they have accomplished to clean up industrial leftovers in the landscape. I highly recommend this book for anyone thirsting for landscape photography, landscape theory, ecology and nature.