Observation of seeking wasted land from Hulme Park towards Castlefield Urban Heritage Park.
This work is based on the study from 'Drosscape' by Alan Berger and 'The city that never was' by Christopher Marcinkoski.
‘Contemporary modes of industrial production, driven by economical and consumerist influences, contribute to urbanization and the formation of “waste landscapes”—meaning actual waste (such as municipal solid waste, sewage, scrap metal, etc.), wasted places (such as abandoned and/or contaminated sites), or wasteful places (such as huge parking lots, retail malls, etc.). The term urban sprawl and the rhetorics of proand anti-urban sprawl advocates all but obsolesce under the realization that there is no growth without waste and that urban growth and dross go hand in hand, and always have, not because of anything human, or indeed even pertaining to life, but due to physics itself. Complex processes must export waste to their boundaries in order to maintain and grow’ (Berger 2006:45).
This observation is in a 500 radius realm. This route passes through vacant space, residential areas, parks, road overpasses, construction sites, commercial downtown areas, art galleries, and the old Castletown station. I recorded the wasteland that I saw along the way with photos.
