First we had cities: space for living and working. Then came suburbs, for living in and commuting from. A couple of decades ago we got edge city, where the world of work came out to meet the ‘burbs again in an extended version of urban sprawl. Now, beyond the sprawl, we have drosscapes.
Drosscapes are large tracts of abused land on the peripheries of cities and beyond, where urban sprawl meets urban dereliction: landscapes of wasted land where the planners gave up. They are a world of contaminated former industrial sites, mineral workings, garbage dumps, container stores, polluted river banks,…
