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 ARTICLES __ON WASTE __ Marc Angelil and Cary Siress, “,” //Log 18// (2010): 101–112. Sabine Barles, “History of Waste Management and The Social and Cultural Representations of Waste,” in World Environmental History. Pierre B é langer, ": The Geopolitics of Landfilling in Michigan" in //Trash,// edited by John Knechtel (Cambridge: MIT Press 2006): 132–155. Pierre Bélanger, “” //Topos// 60 (2007): 83–91. Matthew Gandy, “,” //Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City// (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002): 187–227. Zsuzsa Giles, “,” //Environment and Planning A// volume 42 (2010): 1049–1064. Nicky Gregson and Mike Crang, “,” //Environment and Planning A// volume 42 (2010): 1026–1032. Bruno Latour, "Give Me a Laboratory and I will Raise the World," in Science Observed: Perspectives on the Social Study of Science, edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Michael Mulkay (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1983): 141-170. John May, "," in //Verb: Crisis//, edited by Irene Hwang and Mario Ballesteros (Barcelona: Actar, 2008): 80–101. Martin Melosi, “The Viability of Incineration as a Disposal Option: The Evolution of a Niche Technology, 1885−1995,” Public Works Management Policy (1996): 1-31. Martin Melosi, “The Fresno Sanitary Landfill in an American Cultural Context,” The Public Historian, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer 2002): 17-35. Martin Melosi, "," Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). Gillian Pye, "Trash Objects, History and Memory: Theorizing Rubbish with Wolfgang Hilbig," //German Life and Letters// volume 61:2 (April, 2008): 261-278. Robin Saha and Paul Mohai, “,” //Social Problems//, Vol. 52 (2005): 618–648. Joel A. Tarr, “From City to Farm: Urban Wastes and the American Farmer,” //Agricultural History//, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Oct., 1975): 598-612.
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__ ON DETROIT __ Dale Winling, "Out of the Congested Zone: Annexation in, 1915-1926," Urban History Conference 2006.

BOOKS Alan Berger, //Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America// (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006). Mira Engler, //Designing America's Waste Landscapes// (Baltimore: Hopkins University Press, 2004). Edward Humes, // Garbology: Our dirty love affair with trash // (New York: Avery, 2012). Martin Melosi, //Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment// (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Joshua Reno, //Out of Place: Possibility and pollution at a transnational landfill,// Diss: (University of Michigan, 2008). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Susan Strasser, //Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash// (New York: Henry Holt and co., 2000)

WEBSITES http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/inforesources/online/index.htm http://www.ejnet.org/landfills/ http://www.michigan.gov/dnr http://www.michigan.gov/deq (related resources for other states can be found compiled here: http://www.biocycle.net/resources/other-resources/) http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/wtert/sofos/SOG2010.pdf (n.b. this report has been produced since 1989; some earlier reports have different categories of data based on changing concerns)

SPECULATIVE PRECEDENTS Terreform ONE, "," //Architectural Design: Special Issue EcoRedux//, Volume 8, Issue 6 (2010): 122-129. Mel Chin, Revival Field [|Mierle Laderman Ukeles]

VIDEO Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant in New York (Thomas A. Edison Inc., 1903), 1:46 mins - [|link] NYC Dumping Wharf in New York (Thomas A. Edison Inc., 1903), 1:24 mins - [|link]