Main entry:

Holmes, Rob (Landscape architect), author.

Title & Author:

Silt sand slurry : dredging, sediment, and the worlds we are making / Rob Holmes, Brett Milligan, Gena Wirth ; with contributions by Sean Burkholder, Brian Davis, Justine Holzman.

Publication:

[Novato, California] : Applied Research + Design Publishing, an imprint of Oro Editions, [2023]
©2023

Description:

385 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Dredge matters -- Dredge 101 -- Choreographing sediment -- Dredge city: the New York Metropolitan Area -- Building marsh islands and making the most of dredging / Lisa Baron and Peter Weppler -- River gods, return / Brian Davis -- Mud is vital -- Inland chokepoint: the Great Lakes -- Parks, sediment and environmental justice / Juanita Irizarry -- Liminal lakeshores / Sean Burkholder -- Aesthetics and publics -- Disappearing delta: the Mississippi River -- Engineering by, for, and with nature / Todd Bridges -- The science of sediment / Justine Holzman -- Technology, pace, and adaptation -- Sediment shortfall: the California Bay-Delta -- Regulating sediment / Brenda Goeden -- Stories, fun, and climate justice / Phoenix Love Armenta -- Why design?

Summary:

"Despite the urgency of the issues and the centrality of sediment to coastal landscapes, there is no existing work that is directly comparable across topic, format, and content"-- Provided by publisher.
"Silt Sand Slurry is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America's coasts, estuaries, and rivers. Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life. Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships. It is diverted from river basins to control flooding. It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches. Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than 'natural' geologic processes yet this global reshaping of the earth's surface is rarely discussed and poorly understood ... This book explores the many limitations of current sediment management, such as short-sighted efforts to keep dynamic ecosystems from changing, failure to value sediment as a resource, and inequitable decision-making processes. In response, we propose an approach to designing with sediment that is adaptive, healthy, and equitable"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781954081840 (hardback)
1954081847 (hardback)

Subject:

Dredging.
Sediments (Geology)
Silt.
Slurry.
Coasts United States.
Dragage.
Sédiments (Géologie)
Littoral États-Unis.
Limon.
Coulis (Matériau)
dredging.
Coasts
United States

Added entries:

Milligan, Brett, author.
Wirth, Gena, author.
Burkholder, Sean, contributor.
Davis, Brian (Landscape architect), contributor.
Holzman, Justine, contributor.
Dredge Research Collaborative, issuing body.

Dredging, sediment, and the worlds we are making

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320927
Call No.: 320927
Copy: 1
Status: Available