Badlands are probably more descriptively correct, but what's the term for the process of land degrading into it? I love deserts as a natural landscape but in this context am drawing from the idea of food deserts. There are big swaths of urban areas where similarly alienated humans have to travel similar distances for accessible nutritious food. Suburban desertification would extend that same process to the larger variety of animals trying to coexist in the space.
I think we're going to have to make a term for it, especially as the suburbs become depopulated in the face of post-industrialization. I'm not feeling extremely poetic or artful rn so I dont think I could make a term like that, but maybe something like suburosion or anthrosion.
Badlands are probably more descriptively correct, but what's the term for the process of land degrading into it? I love deserts as a natural landscape but in this context am drawing from the idea of food deserts. There are big swaths of urban areas where similarly alienated humans have to travel similar distances for accessible nutritious food. Suburban desertification would extend that same process to the larger variety of animals trying to coexist in the space.
I think we're going to have to make a term for it, especially as the suburbs become depopulated in the face of post-industrialization. I'm not feeling extremely poetic or artful rn so I dont think I could make a term like that, but maybe something like suburosion or anthrosion.