Landscape as Infrastructure

A Base Primer

Pierre Belanger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781317243175
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

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).

Index

1. 1968 15, 74, 88, 91, 93, 94, 96, 110, 113, 257, 339, 346, 421, 481
   1. The Incredible Year 91
2. 2018 60
3. 2150 89

1. accumulation 22, 98, 113, 195, 248, 265, 472, 474. See also waste; See also David Harvey
2. agrarian 128, 275, 283, 381, 398, 409, 423, 474
3. Agricultural Adjustment Act 132
4. Allen, Stan 160
5. Ambler Realty 123, 125, 261
6. America in Ruins 144, 152, 385, 470, 485
7. Americas 299, 417, 421, 422
8. Apollo Missions 88, 90, 183, 257, 258, 481, 482
   1. Apollo 8 88, 90
9. apple
   1. globalization of 313
10. architects
    1. Phillip Shore & Robert Moffat 302
11. architectures 33, 51, 54
    1. Traffic Architecture 311
12. Armstrong, Neil 88
13. ASCE 54, 55, 72, 471, 485. See also USACE
    1. Building Strong 54
14. asian carp 418
15. asphalt 113, 159, 162, 184, 185, 186, 488
16. astronaut 88, 90, 183, 257, 258, 481, 482
17. Atlantic City 182
18. Atlantic Ocean 258, 430
19. A...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Prepositions
• A Landscape Manifesto
• Systems of Systems
• Redefining Infrastructure
• Synthetic Surfaces
• Ecologies of Disassembly
• Landscape as Infrastructure
• Foodshed
• Metabolic Landscape
• Regionalization
• Infrastructural Ecologies
• Bibliographic Notes
• Index
• About the Format