Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects

Front Matter....Pages i-lxxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Megaengineering: The Concept and a Research Frontier....Pages 3-12
Building the Next Seven Wonders: The Landscape Rhetoric of Large Engineering Projects....Pages 13-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Information Technology as Megaengineering: The Impact of GIS....Pages 37-47
Google and the Internet: A Mega-Project Nesting Within Another Mega-Project....Pages 49-65
Cloud Collaboration: Peer-Production and the Engineering of the internet....Pages 67-83
Engineering Community and Place: Facebook as Megaengineering....Pages 85-101
Real-Time National Stability Engineering: Mapping the 2009 Afghan Election....Pages 103-113
Engineering Time and Space with the Global Fiber Optics Industry....Pages 115-129
The Internet in Three Finnish Cities: Accessing Global Networks....Pages 131-143
ICTs and Activities on the Move? People’s Use of Time While Traveling by Public Transportation....Pages 145-154
Assembling Video Game Worlds....Pages 155-171
GPS Collars in Studies of Cattle Movement: Cases of Northeast Namibia and North Finland....Pages 173-187
Engineering Cattle for Dairy Development in Rural India....Pages 189-215
Social Responses to Crop Biotechnology: Bt Cotton Cultivation in Gujarat, India....Pages 217-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Turning the Soviet Union into Iowa: The Virgin Lands Program in the Soviet Union....Pages 237-256
The Megaengineering of Ocean Fisheries: A Century of Expansion and Rapidly Closing Frontiers....Pages 257-273
Impacts of Up-Coming Deep-Sea Mining....Pages 275-295
When Megaengineering Disturbs Ram: The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project....Pages 297-310
Deep Drilling: Tunnel Spaces as Gender Spaces....Pages 311-327
The Megaproject of Mining: A Feminist Critique....Pages 329-351
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
The Richest Hole on Earth? Nature, Labor and the Politics of Metabolism at the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine....Pages 353-366
When Boom Goes Bust: Ruins, Crisis and Security in Megaengineering Diamond Mining in Angola....Pages 367-382
Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in Guatemala and the Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters the Church of the Poor....Pages 383-411
Character and Scale of Environmental Disturbances Resulting from Mining in the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly....Pages 413-426
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Engineering and Re-engineering Earth: Industrialized Harvesting of Ireland’s Peatlands and its Aftermath 1 ....Pages 429-446
Energy-Hungry Europe: Development Projects in South-Central Europe....Pages 447-460
The Next Generation of Energy Landscapes....Pages 461-482
The Repercussions of Being Addicted to Oil: Geospatial Modeling of Supply Shocks....Pages 483-496
Global Motor Vehicle Assembly: Nationalism, Economics, and Rationale....Pages 497-511
Potentials and Employment Impacts of Advanced Energy Production from Forest Residues in Sparsely Populated Areas....Pages 513-532
Megaproject: A 4-Decade Perspective of the Gulf Development Model....Pages 533-550
Front Matter....Pages 551-551
“America’s New Design for Living:” The Interstate Highway System and the Spatial Transformation of the U.S.....Pages 553-567
The Transamazon Highway: Past, Present, Future....Pages 569-599
Megaprojects in India: Environmental and Land Acquisition Issues in the Road Sector....Pages 601-615
Shifting Sands: The Trans-Saharan Railway....Pages 617-626
Will New Mobilities Beget New (Im)Mobilities? Prospects for Change Resulting from Mongolia’s Trans-State Highway....Pages 627-641
“America’s Glory Road” … On Ice: Permafrost and the Development of the Alcan Highway, 1942–1943....Pages 643-661
“We Shall Dress You in a Robe of Cement and Concrete:” How Discourse Concerning Megaengineering Projects Has Been Changing in Israel....Pages 663-681
Built in a Field of Dreams? Spatial Engineering and Political Symbolism of South Africa’s Rapid Rail Link Development, Gautrain....Pages 683-695
Manufacturing Consent for Engineering Earth: Social Dynamics in Boston’s Big Dig....Pages 697-713
Front Matter....Pages 551-551
Impacts of The “Marmaray” Project (Bosphorus Tube Crossing, Tunnels and Stations) on Transportation and Urban Environment in Istanbul....Pages 715-733
Scandinavian Links: Mega Bridges Linking the Scandinavian Peninsula to the European Continent....Pages 735-746
The Qinghai–Tibetan Railroad: Innovative Construction on Warm Permafrost in a Low-Latitude, High-Elevation Region....Pages 747-765
Front Matter....Pages 767-767
A Network Perspective on Mega-Engineering Projects....Pages 769-782
Bechtel: The Global Corporation....Pages 783-801
Chinese Construction Industry: Governance, Procurement and Culture....Pages 803-818
An Overview of the Gulf Countries’ Construction Industry....Pages 819-838
Exploring the Role of Governance in Sustainable Franchised Distribution Channels....Pages 839-847
Front Matter....Pages 849-849
Intermodal Terminals, Mega Ports and Mega Logistics....Pages 851-866
Mega-Airports: The Political, Economic, and Environmental Implications of the World’s Expanding Air Transportation Gateways....Pages 867-887
University as Megaengineering Project....Pages 889-901
Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth: Megachurches and the Reengineering of America’s Spiritual Soil....Pages 903-931
Mega-Engineering Projects in Russia: Examples from Moscow and St. Petersburg....Pages 933-953
Engineering New Geographies with the Burj Dubai*....Pages 955-966
Floating Cities....Pages 967-983
Planning and Implementing Capital Cities – Lessons from the Past and Prospects for Intelligent Development in the Future: The Case of Korea....Pages 985-999
Astana, Kazakhstan: Megadream, Megacity, Megadestiny?....Pages 1001-1020
Myanmar’s New Capital City of Naypyidaw....Pages 1021-1044
Event Engineering: Urban Planning for Olympics and World’s Fairs....Pages 1045-1055
Sustainable City Regions: Mega-Projects in Balance with the Earth’s Carrying Capacity....Pages 1057-1070
Front Matter....Pages 849-849
Edge Cities in the Era of Megaprojects....Pages 1071-1088
Engineering and the Architecture of Economic Recovery: TARP, the New Deal, and the Evolving Landscapes of Crisis....Pages 1089-1106
Front Matter....Pages 1107-1107
Engineering Singapore as a City–State and Tourism Destination....Pages 1109-1125
Val d’Europe: A Mega Urban Project Partnered by Walt Disney Company and the French State....Pages 1127-1145
Dredging Paradise: The Making of San Diego’s Mission Bay Aquatic Park....Pages 1147-1158
Earth as a Medium: The Art and Engineering of Golf Course Construction....Pages 1159-1190
Engineering Metaphorical Landscapes and the Development of Zoos: The Toronto Case Study*....Pages 1191-1222
An Uncomfortable Fit? Transfrontier Parks as MegaProjects....Pages 1223-1242
Dams, Casinos and Concessions: Chinese Megaprojects in Laos and Cambodia....Pages 1243-1265
Engineering Paradise: Marketing the Dominican Republic’s Last Frontier....Pages 1267-1281
Perfecting and Recreating Nature on the Upper Mississippi River....Pages 1283-1296
The Bluegrass of Kentucky: An Engineered Image of a Gracious Life....Pages 1297-1322
Constructing Thoroughbred Breeding Landscapes: Manufactured Idylls in the Upper Hunter Region of Australia....Pages 1323-1339
Front Matter....Pages 1341-1341
The Earth Restoration Project: An Overview....Pages 1343-1352
Huge Yields of Green Belts? Mega and Micro Plantation Forestry Cases from Indonesia, Ghana and Zimbabwe....Pages 1353-1368
Historic Land Use and Social Policy Affecting Large-Scale Changes in Forest Cover in the Midwest United States....Pages 1369-1382
The Historical Decrease of Soil Erosion in the Eastern United States – The Role of Geography and Engineering....Pages 1383-1393
Re-Making America: Soil Mechanics, Earth Moving, Highways, and Dams....Pages 1395-1408
Engineering the Emirates: The Evolution of a New Environment....Pages 1409-1423
Land Marks in the Cure of Madness: The Shaping of 19th Century Asylum Sites in Melbourne, Australia....Pages 1425-1439
Front Matter....Pages 1341-1341
Sea Art: The Mediterranean Sea Terrace Proposal....Pages 1441-1447
Front Matter....Pages 1449-1449
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River Cutoff Plan....Pages 1451-1463
The Impacts of Megahydraulic Engineering Projects from a Dutch Perspective....Pages 1465-1480
Dutch Coastal Engineering Projects: Past Success and Future Challenges....Pages 1481-1497
Moving the River? China’s South–North Water Transfer Project....Pages 1499-1514
The Siberian Water Transfer Scheme....Pages 1515-1530
Freshwater Supplies Necklace Super-Project: Floating Bags and Rolling Freshwater Tires Facilitating Future India–China–Bangladesh Life Necessities Trade....Pages 1531-1540
Aral Sea Partial Refilling Macroproject....Pages 1541-1547
Geo-Engineering South Australia: The Case of Lake Eyre....Pages 1549-1566
Front Matter....Pages 1567-1567
Mega-Hydroelectric Power Generation on the Yangtze River: The Three Gorges Dam....Pages 1569-1581
Demographic Impacts of the Three Gorges Dam....Pages 1583-1598
Water Worth Gold: The Itaipú Hydroelectric Project 1 ....Pages 1599-1615
Megadams for Irrigation in Nigeria: Nature, Dimensions, and Geographies of Impacts....Pages 1617-1631
Ebbs and Flows: Megaproject Politics on the Mekong....Pages 1633-1650
Beyond Mega on a Mega Continent: Grand Inga on Central Africa’s Congo River....Pages 1651-1679
Front Matter....Pages 1681-1681
America’s Military Footprint: Landscapes and Built Environments within the Continental U.S.....Pages 1683-1700
Constructing the Border Wall – The Social and Environmental Impacts of Border: Mexico-U.S. Border Policy....Pages 1701-1722
The Engineering of Detentional Landscapes: Australia’s Asylum Seeker Island Prisons....Pages 1723-1748
“Alcatraz in the Sky”: Engineering Exile in a Virginia (USA) Prison....Pages 1749-1764
An Environmental History of the French Nuclear Complex at La Hague....Pages 1765-1787
Front Matter....Pages 1681-1681
Fifty Years of Soviet Nuclear Testing in Semipalatinsk, Kazakstan: Juxtaposed Worlds of Blasts and Silences, Security and Risks, Denials and Memory....Pages 1789-1818
Front Matter....Pages 1819-1819
Florida’s Planned Retirement Communities: Marketing Age, Religion, Ethnicity and Lifestyle....Pages 1821-1854
Re-engineering the Urban Landscape: Land Use Reconfiguration and the Morphological Transformation of Shrinking Industrial Cities....Pages 1855-1883
Wiring the Countryside: Rural Electrification in Ireland....Pages 1885-1899
When a New Deal is Actually an Old Deal: The Role of TVA in Engineering a Jim Crow Racialized Landscape....Pages 1901-1916
A Double-Edged Sword: Social Control in Appalachian Company Towns....Pages 1917-1935
Social Engineering: Creating and Now Undoing Apartheid’s Structures....Pages 1937-1955
Engineering Socialism: A History of Village Relocations in Chukotka, Russia....Pages 1957-1973
The State of Deseret: The Creation of the Mormon Landscape in the Western U.S.....Pages 1975-1995
Subversive Engineering: Building Names in Singapore....Pages 1997-2011
Empire, Names and Renaming: The Case of Nagorno Karabakh....Pages 2013-2029
Reconstructing Post-Conflict Human Landscapes: The Land Administration Domain Model....Pages 2031-2049
Front Matter....Pages 2051-2051
Zoning as a Form of Social Engineering....Pages 2053-2065
Engineering Borders and Border Landscapes: The Schengen Regime and the EU’s New Internal and External Boundaries in Central-Eastern Europe....Pages 2067-2087
Engineered Healing and the Northern Ireland Question: Collaboration Across an Increasingly Invisible Border....Pages 2089-2111
Liquid Urbanity: Re-engineering the City in a Post-Terrestrial World....Pages 2113-2122
Living on the Grid: The U.S. Rectangular Public Land Survey System and the Engineering of the American Landscape....Pages 2123-2138
Traces of Power: Europe’s Impact on the Political Organization of the Globe....Pages 2139-2157
Air and Space Demarcation....Pages 2159-2170
Front Matter....Pages 2171-2171
A Perspective on Weather Modification: Planned and Inadvertent....Pages 2173-2184
Front Matter....Pages 2171-2171
Climate Change, Climate Models and Geoengineering the Earth....Pages 2185-2199
Olivine Hills: Mineral Water Against Climate Change....Pages 2201-2206
Demise of the Geomagnetic Field: An Opportunity for Mega-Engineers to Save Humanity....Pages 2207-2215
Terraforming Mars: A Review of Concepts....Pages 2217-2225
Planetary Ecosynthesis on Mars and Geo-Engineering on Earth: Can We? Should We? Will We?....Pages 2227-2232
Global Warming and the Specter of Geoengineering: Ecological Apocalypse, Modernist Hubris, and Scientific-Technological Salvation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Global Warming Trilogy....Pages 2233-2252
Back Matter....Pages 2253-2266