![]() Here, he takes us on a tour of New York City’s dredged landscapes, from Battery Park City to Jamaica Bay, and explains how the city’s past, present, and future are shaped by technologies and applications of what the Dredge Research Collaborative call “the greatest unrecognized landscape architecture project in the world. To better understand this centuries-old practice of urban environmental manipulation, journalist Tim Maly helped to found the Dredge Research Collaborative, the group that organized DredgeFest. It is a crucial component of erosion control and habitat restoration, of toxic landscape remediation, of the establishment and preparation of global shipping routes, even of the New York City coastal real estate market. Its invisible processes belie its transformative impact on the physical shape of the city dredging plays an enormous role in a complex network of geologic, economic, ecological and architectural forces, at local, regional and global scales. This wasn’t your average scenic cruise however: I was one of more than 125 people spending a Saturday attending day two of DredgeFest, an event exploring “the human acceleration of sediments.” Put simply, dredging is the scooping up and removing of mud, silt, sand, clay, and other sediments from the beds of waterways. ![]() American Princess at Manhattan’s Pier 11 for a boat tour of New York Harbor. On a chilly, overcast Saturday in late September, I boarded the S.S.
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