Landscape As Infrastructure - A Base Primer

This book formulates strategies for rethinking, reclaiming and reinvesting into this vast field of knowledge and practice by conceiving infrastructure as instrument, effect and interface to contemporary processes of urbanization.

List of contents

Imaging Infrastructure, Part I: Prepositioning, 1. Disorganization of the Book, 2. A Landscape Manifesto, 3. Systems of Systems, Part II: Processing, 4. Redefining Infrastructure, 5. Synthetic Surfaces, 6. Ecologies of Disassembly, Part III: Projecting, 7. Landscape as Infrastructure, 8. Foodshed, 9. Metabolic Landscape, 10. Regionalization, 11. Infrastructural Ecologies,

About the author

Pierre Bélanger is a cartographer, curator, author, educator, and builder originally trained as a landscape architect and urban planner. With transdisciplinary expertise in the areas of ecology, infrastructure, media, and urbanism, he founded the Landscape Infrastructure Lab and OPSYS Media in 2001. Selected books and publications include LANDSCAPE AS INFRASTRUCTURE, ECOLOGIES OF POWER, GOING LIVE, RISK ECOLOGIES, WET MATTER, EXTRACTION EMPIRE.

Summary

This book formulates strategies for rethinking, reclaiming and reinvesting into this vast field of knowledge and practice by conceiving infrastructure as instrument, effect and interface to contemporary processes of urbanization.

Additional text

"Bélanger, a self-proclaimed landscape urbanist, argues that a new, ecologically informed set of conceptual frames and material techniques will replace the tradition of reductive, monofunctional, centralized approaches to infrastructure that have dominated urbanization up to now."
—Gale Fulton, ASLA, Director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Landscape Architecture Magazine

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Belanger Baelanger, Pierre Belanger, Pierre (Harvard Gsd Belanger, Pierre (Harvard University Belanger, Belanger Pierre
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138643925
• ISBN: 978-1-138-64392-5
• No. of pages: 508
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, environmental science, engineering & technology, Urban & municipal planning, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Landscape architecture and design, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design