Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America
Alan Berger

Following up his the epic Reclaiming the American West, which focused on the mining landscape of the American intermountain west, Alan Berger charted and chartered a course over the rest of the country, shooting out the windows of Cessnas with a medium format camera, shooting suburbs, office parks, and spent industrial grounds of ten major American cities - the Drosscape of the title. The book is also full of text, maps, and graphics that show the patterns of movement from center to peripheries, and the filling in of the in-between, though it is the captioned aerial images, low, oblique, that stand out, telling the story with documentary eloquence.

Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, paperback, 256 pages.