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Revising Green Infrastructure

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Concepts Between Nature and Design

Revising Green Infrastructure

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Revising Green Infrastructure book

Concepts Between Nature and Design
Edited ByDaniel Czechowski, Thomas Hauck, Georg Hausladen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 30 November 2017
Pub. Location Boca Raton
Imprint CRC Press
DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/b17639
Pages 488
eBook ISBN 9781351228947
Subjects Built Environment, Engineering & Technology
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Czechowski, D., Hauck, T., & Hausladen, G. (Eds.). (2015). Revising Green Infrastructure: Concepts Between Nature and Design (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b17639

ABSTRACT

Consider this …

  • How do we handle the convergence of landscape architecture, ecological planning, and civil engineering?
  • What are convenient terms and metaphors to communicate the interplay between design and ecology?
  • What are suitable scientific theories and technological means?
  • What innovations arise from multidisciplinary and cross-scalar approaches?
  • What are appropriate aesthetic statements and spatial concepts?
  • What instruments and tools should be applied?

Revising Green Infrastructure: Concepts Between Nature and Design examines these questions and presents innovative approaches in designing green, landscape or nature as infrastructure from different perspectives and attitudes instead of adding another definition or category of green infrastructure. The editors bring together the work of selected ecologists, engineers, and landscape architects who discuss a variety of theoretical aspects, research projects, teaching methods, and best practice examples in green infrastructure. The approaches range from retrofitting existing infrastructures through landscape-based integrations of new infrastructures and envisioning prospective landscapes as hybrids, machines, or cultural extensions.

The book explores a scientific functional approach in landscape architecture. It begins with an overview of green functionalism and includes examples of how new design logics are deducted from ecology in order to meet economic and environmental requirements and open new aesthetic relationships toward nature. The contributors share a decidedly cultural perspective on nature as landscape. Their ecological view emphasizes the individual nature of specific local situations.

Building on this foundation, the subsequent chapters present political ideas and programs defining social relations toward nature and their integration in different planning systems as well as their impact on nature and society. They explore different ways of participation and cooperation within cities, regions, and nations. They then describe projects implemented in local contexts to solve concrete problems or remediate malfunctions. These projects illustrate the full scope presented and discussed throughout the book: the use of scientific knowledge, strategic thinking, communication with municipal authorities and local stakeholders, design implementation on site, and documentation and control of feedback and outcome with adequate indicators and metrics.

Although diverse and sometimes controversial, the discussion of how nature is regarded in contrast to society, how human-natural systems could be organized, and how nature could be changed, optimized, or designed raises the question of whether there is a new paradigm for the design of social relations to nature. The multidisciplinary review in this book brings together discussions previously held only within the respective disciplines, and demonstrates how they can be used to develop new methods and remediation strategies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|26 pages

Green Functionalism: A Brief Sketch of Its History and Ideas in the United States and Germany

chapter 2|18 pages

Carefully Radical or Radically Careful? Ecology as Design Motif

chapter 3|24 pages

The City That Never Was: Engaging Speculative Urbanization through the Logics of Landscape

chapter 4|20 pages

Landscape as Energy Infrastructure: Ecologic Approaches and Aesthetic Implications of Design

chapter 5|22 pages

Landscape Machines: Designerly Concept and Framework for an Evolving Discourse on Living System Design

chapter 6|24 pages

Problems of the Odumian Theory of Ecosystems

chapter 7|16 pages

The Garden and the Machine

chapter 8|18 pages

Infrastructure Design as a Catalyst for Landscape Transformation: Research by Design on the Structuring Potential of Regional Public Transport

chapter 9|22 pages

Beyond Infrastructure and Superstructure: Intermediating Landscapes

chapter 10|16 pages

Landscapes of Variance: Working the Gap between Design and Nature

chapter 11|16 pages

Designing Integral Urban Landscapes: On the End of Nature and the Beginning of Cultures

chapter 12|22 pages

Counterpoint: The Musical Analogy, Periodicity, and Rural Urban Dynamics

chapter 13|20 pages

A Transatlantic Lens on Green Infrastructure Planning and Ecosystem Services: Assessing Implementation in Berlin and Seattle

chapter 14|18 pages

The Concept of “New Nature”: A Paradigm Shift in How to Deal with Complex Spatial Questions

chapter 15|16 pages

Ecological Network Planning: Exemplary Habitat Connectivity Projects in Germany

chapter 16|22 pages

Planting the Desert: Cultivating Green Wall Infrastructure

chapter 17|32 pages

Designing for Uncertainty: The Case of Canaan, Haiti

chapter 18|30 pages

Water-Sensitive Design of Open Space Systems: Ecological Infrastructure Strategy for Metropolitan Lima, Peru

chapter 19|20 pages

Green Infrastructure: Performance, Appearance, Economy, and Working Method

chapter 20|22 pages

The Caribbean Landscape Cyborg: Designing Green Infrastructure for La Parguera, Puerto Rico

chapter 21|24 pages

Forests and Trees in the City: Southwest Flanders and the Mekong Delta

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