ABSTRACT
**This title was originally published in 2001. The version published in 2011 is a PB reprint of the original HB**
Manufactured Sites focuses on the legacy of industrial production and pollutants on the contemporary landscape and their influence on new scientific research, innovative site technologies and progressive site design. It presents innovative environmental, engineering and design approaches along with ongoing research and built projects of international significance. Contributions range from innovative scientific engineering research from industry and federal agencies to contemporary international and regional professional reclamation and redevelopment projects such as the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia and the A.G. Thyssen steelworks and blast furnace planning in Germany's Ruhr region.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|30 pages
Introduction
chapter Chapter 1|9 pages
Manufactured sites: integrating technology and design in reclaimed landscapes
part II|92 pages
Integrating technology and design
chapter Chapter 3|10 pages
Beyond clean-up of manufactured sites: remediation, restoration and renewal of habitat
chapter Chapter 7|10 pages
The Tacoma Asarco smelter site: the use of geostatistics to guide residential soil clean-up
part III|117 pages
Reclaimed landscapes
chapter Chapter 12|12 pages
Science, engineering, and the art of restoration: two case studies in wetland construction
chapter Chapter 15|13 pages
The Sydney Olympics 2000: combining technology and design in the planning of the “Green Games”
part IV|11 pages
Postscript