1. To create new developments on landscapes that transform waste into more productive urbanized landscapes to some degree: The local government officials were trying to drosscape the area around the city in order to utilize regions of land in practical ways.
2. To conceive of plans that emphasize the productive integration and reuse of waste landscapes throughout the urban world: Landscape architects and city designers like to drosscape as a challenge to use existing conditions which others have condemned as unusable.
3. Etymology: a conception that dross, or "waste", is scaped, or "resurfaced", and reconstructed for the benefit of human existence.