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| Table of contents 1. Introduction to Megaengineering: The Concept and a Research Frontier Stanley D. Brunn, Andrew Wood 2. Building the Next Seven Wonders: The Landscape Rhetoric of Large Engineering Projects Ben Marsh, Janet Jones 3. Information Technology as Megaengineering: The Impact of GIS Michael F. Goodchild 4. Google and the Internet: A Mega-Project Nesting Within Another Mega-Project Maria Paradiso 5. Cloud Collaboration: Peer-Production and the Engineering of the internet Mark Graham 6. Engineering Community and Place: Facebook as Megaengineering Michael Longan, Darren Purcell 7. Real-Time National Stability Engineering: Mapping the 2009 Afghan Election Tom Buckley, Sean Gorman, Laurie Schintler, Rajendra Kulkarni 8. Engineering Time and Space with the Global Fiber Optics Industry Barney Warf 9. The Internet in Three Finnish Cities: Accessing Global Networks Tommi Inkinen 10. ICTs and Activities on the Move? People’s Use of Time While Traveling by Public Transportation Bertil Vilhelmson, Eva Thulin, Daniel Fahlén 11. Assembling Video Game Worlds Ian Graham Ronald Shaw 12. GPS Collars in Studies of Cattle Movement: Cases of Northeast Namibia and North Finland Katja Polojärvi, Alfred Colpaert, Kenneth Matengu, Jouko Kumpula 13. Engineering Cattle for Dairy Development in Rural India Pratyusha Basu 14. Social Responses to Crop Biotechnology: Bt Cotton Cultivation in Gujarat, India Esha Shah 15. Turning the Soviet Union into Iowa: The Virgin Lands Program in the Soviet Union William C. Rowe 16. The Megaengineering of Ocean Fisheries: A Century of Expansion and Rapidly Closing Frontiers Maarten Bavinck 17. Impacts of Up-Coming Deep-Sea Mining Tetsuo Yamazaki 18. When Megaengineering Disturbs Ram: The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project Michiel Dijk, Virginie Mamadouh 19. Deep Drilling: Tunnel Spaces as Gender Spaces Elisabeth Joris 20. The Megaproject of Mining: A Feminist Critique Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt 21. The Richest Hole on Earth? Nature, Labor and the Politics of Metabolism at the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine Jody Emel, Matthew T. Huber 22. When Boom Goes Bust: Ruins, Crisis and Security in Megaengineering Diamond Mining in Angola Filipe Calvão 23. Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in Guatemala and the Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters the Church of the Poor William N. Holden, R. Daniel Jacobson 24. Character and Scale of Environmental Disturbances Resulting from Mining in the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly Alina Nekrich 25. Engineering and Re-engineering Earth: Industrialized Harvesting of Ireland’s Peatlands and its Aftermath Proinnsias Breathnach 26. Energy-Hungry Europe: Development Projects in South-Central Europe Anton Gosar 27. The Next Generation of Energy Landscapes Martin J. Pasqualetti 28. The Repercussions of Being Addicted to Oil: Geospatial Modeling of Supply Shocks Laurie Schintler, Rajendra Kulkarni, Tom Buckley, Emily Sciarillo, Sean Gorman 29. Global Motor Vehicle Assembly: Nationalism, Economics, and Rationale Craig S. Campbell 30. Potentials and Employment Impacts of Advanced Energy Production from Forest Residues in Sparsely Populated Areas Olli Lehtonen, Markku Tykkyläinen 31. Megaproject: A 4-Decade Perspective of the Gulf Development Model Michael C. Ewers, Edward J. Malecki 32. “America’s New Design for Living:” The Interstate Highway System and the Spatial Transformation of the U.S. Joe Weber 33. The Transamazon Highway: Past, Present, Future Robert Walker, Stephen Perz, Eugenio Arima, Cynthia Simmons 34. Megaprojects in India: Environmental and Land Acquisition Issues in the Road Sector G. Raghuram, Samantha Bastian, Satyam Shivam Sundaram 35. Shifting Sands: The Trans-Saharan Railway Mike Heffernan 36. Will New Mobilities Beget New (Im)Mobilities? Prospects for Change Resulting from Mongolia’s Trans-State Highway Alexander C. Diener 37. “America’s Glory Road” … On Ice: Permafrost and the Development of the Alcan Highway, 1942–1943 Frederick E. Nelson 38. “We Shall Dress You in a Robe of Cement and Concrete:” How Discourse Concerning Megaengineering Projects Has Been Changing in Israel Izhak Schnell, Anda Rosenberg 39. Built in a Field of Dreams? Spatial Engineering and Political Symbolism of South Africa’s Rapid Rail Link Development, Gautrain Ronnie Donaldson, Janis Westhuizen 40. Manufacturing Consent for Engineering Earth: Social Dynamics in Boston’s Big Dig James P. McCarthy, Kate Driscoll Derickson 41. Impacts of The “Marmaray” Project (Bosphorus Tube Crossing, Tunnels and Stations) on Transportation and Urban Environment in Istanbul Recep Efe, Isa Cürebal 42. Scandinavian Links: Mega Bridges Linking the Scandinavian Peninsula to the European Continent Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Richard D. Knowles 43. The Qinghai–Tibetan Railroad: Innovative Construction on Warm Permafrost in a Low-Latitude, High-Elevation Region Stuart A. Harris 44. A Network Perspective on Mega-Engineering Projects Ajay Mehra, Daniel J. Brass, Stephen P. Borgatti, Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca 45. Bechtel: The Global Corporation Jason Henderson 46. Chinese Construction Industry: Governance, Procurement and Culture Jian Zuo, George Zillante, Zhen-Yu Zhao 47. An Overview of the Gulf Countries’ Construction Industry Alpana Sivam, Sadasivam Karuppannan, Kamalesh Singh 48. Exploring the Role of Governance in Sustainable Franchised Distribution Channels Robert Dahlstrom, Arne Nygaard, Emily Plant 49. Intermodal Terminals, Mega Ports and Mega Logistics Jean-Paul Rodrigue 50. Mega-Airports: The Political, Economic, and Environmental Implications of the World’s Expanding Air Transportation Gateways John T. Bowen, Julie L. Cidell 51. University as Megaengineering Project Judith A. Martin 52. Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth: Megachurches and the Reengineering of America’s Spiritual Soil Scott Thumma, Elizabeth J. Leppman 53. Mega-Engineering Projects in Russia: Examples from Moscow and St. Petersburg Mikhail S. Blinnikov, Megan L. Dixon 54. Engineering New Geographies with the Burj Dubai* Benjamin Smith 55. Floating Cities Alexander A. Bolonkin 56. Planning and Implementing Capital Cities – Lessons from the Past and Prospects for Intelligent Development in the Future: The Case of Korea Kenneth E. Corey 57. Astana, Kazakhstan: Megadream, Megacity, Megadestiny? Leon Yacher 58. Myanmar’s New Capital City of Naypyidaw Dulyapak Preecharushh 59. Event Engineering: Urban Planning for Olympics and World’s Fairs Mark I. Wilson 60. Sustainable City Regions: Mega-Projects in Balance with the Earth’s Carrying Capacity Richard S. Levine, Michael T. Hughes, Casey Ryan Mather 61. Edge Cities in the Era of Megaprojects Selima Sultana 62. Engineering and the Architecture of Economic Recovery: TARP, the New Deal, and the Evolving Landscapes of Crisis Andrew Boulton 63. Engineering Singapore as a City–State and Tourism Destination Joan C. Henderson 64. Val d’Europe: A Mega Urban Project Partnered by Walt Disney Company and the French State Anne-Marie d’Hauteserre 65. Dredging Paradise: The Making of San Diego’s Mission Bay Aquatic Park Larry R. Ford 66. Earth as a Medium: The Art and Engineering of Golf Course Construction John Strawn, Jim Barger, J. Drew Rogers 67. Engineering Metaphorical Landscapes and the Development of Zoos: The Toronto Case Study* Paul Harpley 68. An Uncomfortable Fit? Transfrontier Parks as MegaProjects Elizabeth Lunstrum 69. Dams, Casinos and Concessions: Chinese Megaprojects in Laos and Cambodia Chris Lyttleton, Pál Nyíri 70. Engineering Paradise: Marketing the Dominican Republic’s Last Frontier Joseph L. Scarpaci, Korine N. Kolivras, William Galloway 71. Perfecting and Recreating Nature on the Upper Mississippi River John O. Anfinson 72. The Bluegrass of Kentucky: An Engineered Image of a Gracious Life Thomas J. Nieman, Zina R. Merkin 73. Constructing Thoroughbred Breeding Landscapes: Manufactured Idylls in the Upper Hunter Region of Australia Phil McManus, Glenn Albrecht, Raewyn Graham 74. The Earth Restoration Project: An Overview Jeffrey Gritzner, Georgia Milan, Leonard Berry 75. Huge Yields of Green Belts? Mega and Micro Plantation Forestry Cases from Indonesia, Ghana and Zimbabwe Tapani Tyynelä 76. Historic Land Use and Social Policy Affecting Large-Scale Changes in Forest Cover in the Midwest United States Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Sean P. Sweeney, Tom P. Evans 77. The Historical Decrease of Soil Erosion in the Eastern United States – The Role of Geography and Engineering Stanley W. Trimble 78. Re-Making America: Soil Mechanics, Earth Moving, Highways, and Dams Peter J. Hugill 79. Engineering the Emirates: The Evolution of a New Environment Pernilla Ouis 80. Land Marks in the Cure of Madness: The Shaping of 19th Century Asylum Sites in Melbourne, Australia Anne Bourke 81. Sea Art: The Mediterranean Sea Terrace Proposal Nicola M. Pugno, Richard B. Cathcart, Alexander Bolonkin 82. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River Cutoff Plan Damon Manders 83. The Impacts of Megahydraulic Engineering Projects from a Dutch Perspective Guus J. Borger, Sjoerd J. Kluiving, Adriaan M.J. Kraker 84. Dutch Coastal Engineering Projects: Past Success and Future Challenges Robert Hoeksema 85. Moving the River? China’s South–North Water Transfer Project Darrin Magee 86. The Siberian Water Transfer Scheme Philip Micklin 87. Freshwater Supplies Necklace Super-Project: Floating Bags and Rolling Freshwater Tires Facilitating Future India–China–Bangladesh Life Necessities Trade Richard B. Cathcart 88. Aral Sea Partial Refilling Macroproject Richard B. Cathcart, Viorel Badescu 89. Geo-Engineering South Australia: The Case of Lake Eyre Viorel Badescu, Richard B. Cathcart, Marius Paulescu, Paul Gravila, Alexander A. Bolonkin 90. Mega-Hydroelectric Power Generation on the Yangtze River: The Three Gorges Dam Stuart A. Harris 91. Demographic Impacts of the Three Gorges Dam Yan Tan, Graeme Hugo 92. Water Worth Gold: The Itaipú Hydroelectric Project Melissa H. Birch, Nicolas Quintana Ashwell 93. Megadams for Irrigation in Nigeria: Nature, Dimensions, and Geographies of Impacts Adamu I. Tanko 94. Ebbs and Flows: Megaproject Politics on the Mekong Philip Hirsch, Katherine Wilson 95. Beyond Mega on a Mega Continent: Grand Inga on Central Africa’s Congo River Kate B. Showers 96. America’s Military Footprint: Landscapes and Built Environments within the Continental U.S. William W. Doe, Eugene J. Palka 97. Constructing the Border Wall – The Social and Environmental Impacts of Border: Mexico-U.S. Border Policy Lauren Martin 98. The Engineering of Detentional Landscapes: Australia’s Asylum Seeker Island Prisons Nancy Hudson-Rodd 99. “Alcatraz in the Sky”: Engineering Exile in a Virginia (USA) Prison Matthew L. Mitchelson 100. An Environmental History of the French Nuclear Complex at La Hague Laurent Bocéno 101. Fifty Years of Soviet Nuclear Testing in Semipalatinsk, Kazakstan: Juxtaposed Worlds of Blasts and Silences, Security and Risks, Denials and Memory Stanley D. Brunn 102. Florida’s Planned Retirement Communities: Marketing Age, Religion, Ethnicity and Lifestyle Ira M. Sheskin 103. Re-engineering the Urban Landscape: Land Use Reconfiguration and the Morphological Transformation of Shrinking Industrial Cities Alan Mallach 104. Wiring the Countryside: Rural Electrification in Ireland Patrick J. Duffy 105. When a New Deal is Actually an Old Deal: The Role of TVA in Engineering a Jim Crow Racialized Landscape Derek H. Alderman, Robert N. Brown 106. A Double-Edged Sword: Social Control in Appalachian Company Towns Thomas E. Wagner, Phillip J. Obermiller 107. Social Engineering: Creating and Now Undoing Apartheid’s Structures Vernon A. Domingo 108. Engineering Socialism: A History of Village Relocations in Chukotka, Russia Tobias Holzlehner 109. The State of Deseret: The Creation of the Mormon Landscape in the Western U.S. Samuel M. Otterstrom, Richard H. Jackson 110. Subversive Engineering: Building Names in Singapore Peter K.W. Tan 111. Empire, Names and Renaming: The Case of Nagorno Karabakh Benjamin D. Foster 112. Reconstructing Post-Conflict Human Landscapes: The Land Administration Domain Model Douglas E. Batson 113. Zoning as a Form of Social Engineering Bobby M. Wilson, Seth Appiah-Opoku 114. Engineering Borders and Border Landscapes: The Schengen Regime and the EU’s New Internal and External Boundaries in Central-Eastern Europe Milan Bufon 115. Engineered Healing and the Northern Ireland Question: Collaboration Across an Increasingly Invisible Border Caroline Creamer, John Driscoll, Neale Blair, Brendan Bartley 116. Liquid Urbanity: Re-engineering the City in a Post-Terrestrial World Philip E. Steinberg 117. Living on the Grid: The U.S. Rectangular Public Land Survey System and the Engineering of the American Landscape Gerald R. Webster, Jonathan Leib 118. Traces of Power: Europe’s Impact on the Political Organization of the Globe Corey Johnson, George W. White 119. Air and Space Demarcation Alexandra Harris, Ray Harris 120. A Perspective on Weather Modification: Planned and Inadvertent Nancy Westcott 121. Climate Change, Climate Models and Geoengineering the Earth Jay S. Hobgood 122. Olivine Hills: Mineral Water Against Climate Change Roelof D. Schuiling, Elke Praagman 123. Demise of the Geomagnetic Field: An Opportunity for Mega-Engineers to Save Humanity J. Marvin Herndon 124. Terraforming Mars: A Review of Concepts Martyn J. Fogg 125. Planetary Ecosynthesis on Mars and Geo-Engineering on Earth: Can We? Should We? Will We? Christopher P. McKay 126. Global Warming and the Specter of Geoengineering: Ecological Apocalypse, Modernist Hubris, and Scientific-Technological Salvation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Global Warming Trilogy Ernest J. Yanarella, Christopher Rice | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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