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      Landscape as Infrastructure book

      A Base Primer

      Landscape as Infrastructure

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      Landscape as Infrastructure book

      A Base Primer
      ByPierre Belanger
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 3 November 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315629155
      Pages 508
      eBook ISBN 9781315629155
      Subjects Built Environment, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Urban Studies
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      Belanger, P. (2016). Landscape as Infrastructure: A Base Primer (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315629155

      ABSTRACT

      As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure—the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning— has become pressing. Predominant challenges facing urban regions and territories today—including shifting climates, material flows, and population mobilities, are addressed and strategized here. Responding to the under-performance of master planning and over-exertion of technological systems at the end of twentieth century, this book argues for the strategic design of "infrastructural ecologies," describing a synthetic landscape of living, biophysical systems that operate as urban infrastructures to shape and direct the future of urban economies and cultures into the 21st century.

      Pierre Bélanger is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. As part of the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Advansed Studies Program, Bélanger teaches and coordinates graduate courses on the convergence of ecology, infrastructure and urbanism in the interrelated fields of design, planning and engineering. Dr. Bélanger is author of the 35th edition of the Pamphlet Architecture Series from Princeton Architectural Press, GOING LIVE: from States to Systems (pa35.net), co-editor with Jennifer Sigler of the 39th issue of Harvard Design Magazine, Wet Matter, and co-author of the forthcoming volume ECOLOGIES OF POWER: Mapping Military Geographies & Logistical Landscapes of the U.S. Department of Defense. As a landscape architect and urbanist, he is the recipient of the 2008 Canada Prix de Rome in Architecture and the Curator for the Canada Pavilion ad Canadian Exhibition, "EXTRACTION," at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale (extraction.ca).

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |1 pages

      Copyright Page

      chapter |2 pages

      Title Page

      chapter |1 pages

      Table of Contents

      chapter |2 pages

      Foreword

      chapter |9 pages

      Preface

      chapter |32 pages

      Prepositions

      chapter |32 pages

      A Landscape Manifesto

      chapter |36 pages

      Systems of Systems

      chapter |40 pages

      Redefining Infrastructure

      chapter |36 pages

      Synthetic Surfaces

      chapter |62 pages

      Ecologies of Disassembly

      chapter |42 pages

      Landscape as Infrastructure

      chapter |38 pages

      Foodshed

      chapter |26 pages

      Metabolic Landscape

      chapter |66 pages

      Regionalization

      chapter |53 pages

      Infrastructural Ecologies

      chapter |4 pages

      Imaging Infrastructure

      chapter |12 pages

      Re-Reading Infrastructure

      chapter |2 pages

      Urbanism, without Infrastructure?

      chapter |2 pages

      Acknowledgments

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