Reation: The Third Landscape

Reaction: The Third Landscape

What is the Third Landscape?
The Third Landscape is the left over space. The space not used but the result of expansion and growth. The Third Landscape sort of resembles Drosscape. Drosscape is:

1: a natural component of every dynamically evolving city.
2: accumulated in the wake of the socio and spatio-economic processes of deindustrialization, post fordism, and technological innovation.
3: interstitial. It includes and results in the integration of waste landscapes left over from any from or type of development.

The entire planet could be thought of as Third Landscape, as Gilles suggests. These spaces are the abandon or transitional. The Third Landscape breeds diversity. I read the reading once and realized that there never is a clear explanation as to how this is actually done. You are just told that is does it. I will have to read it again and try to glean this information from the article.

Gilles mentions that the human occupants of the earth do not change as quickly as the other organism, or ecologies. This relates directly back to what was mentioned in my reaction to the Biotech Future reading. Human rate of adapting is extremely slow do to a dependence on technology (clothing, computers, cars, etc). Biotechnology could level this out and provide a way for humans to change at almost the same rate as ecosystems and plant matter or bacteria change. This also would bring humans closer to nature by integrating them into it.