Berger, Alan

• Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies & Planning, 2007 to the present
• Founder (Volunteer), Project for Reclamation Excellence (P-REX), 2002 to the present

Papers and other published materials:

• Berger, A. (2006). Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
• Berger, A. (2006). Drosscape. In C. Waldheim, The Landscape Urbanism Reader (pp. 197-218). New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Education:

• Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, 1986 to 1990

Intellectual positions:

• "Dross" should be integrated into a new design esthetic.
• "Sprawl" and the rhetoric of anti-sprawl advocates becomes meaningless since Dross is a natural consequence of urbanization.
• De-industrialization and de-centralization of industry contributes to dross.
• Dross can be recuperated through a process similar to scavenging.
• Waste land, or "Dross," is a natural effect of de-industrialization and rapid urbanization.