Infrastructural Optimism
eBook - ePub

Infrastructural Optimism

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Infrastructural Optimism

About this book

Infrastructural Optimism investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interdependence of resources and agencies, recognizes a rightfully accelerated need for equitable access and distribution, and prioritizes rising environmental diligence across the design disciplines. Bringing together urban history, case studies, and speculative design propositions, the book explores and defines infrastructure as the basis for a new form of urbanism, emerging from the intersection of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. In defining this new infrastructure, the book introduces new dynamic and holistic performance metrics focused on "measuring what matters" over growth for the sake of growth and twelve criteria that define next generation infrastructure. By shifting the focus of infrastructure – our largest public realm – to environmental symbiosis and quality of life for all, design becomes a catalytic component in creating a more beautiful, productive, and optimistic future with Infrastructural Urbanism as its driver. Infrastructural Optimism will be invaluable to design, non-profit and agency professionals, and faculty and students in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, working in partnership with engineers, hydrologists, ecologists, urban planners, community members, and others who shape the built environment through the expanded field of infrastructure.

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INDEX

Aaron, Robbie 127, 129, 166
Abbott, Greg 115
academic-based community design centers (CDCs) 61
accessory dwelling units (ADUs) 23
activism 18, 30; awareness and 59; environmental 16; new forms of 61-62
adaptive ecological design 30
ADOT see Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)
ADUs see accessory dwelling units (ADUs)
"advocacy loops" 223
aershop 96, 231
Afrofuturism xv
AFH see Architecture for Humanity (AFH)
Airbnb 262
air pollution 7, 32, 128
Allen, Danielle 269
Allen, Julie 104n49
Allen, Stan 26, 38-41, 51 n48
alternative urbanisms 20, 67
America in Ruins: The Decaying Infrastructure (Choate and Walter) 56, 57
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (ASHTO) 64, 111
American exceptionalism 9
American postwar identity 106
American Public Works Association (APWA) 73, 238
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 3, 7, 60, 61, 238
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 3, 55
Andrews, Stratton 159
Ant Farm 36
Anthropocene 109, 229
anti-establishment design collectives 35
APWA see American Public Works Association (APWA)
Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans 100
Arbery, Ahmaud 8
Archigram 36, 37
Architecture Association (AA) 22
Architecture for Humanity (AFH) 61, 62
Architecture Lobby 242
Arendt, Hannah 2...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Half Title
  5. Table of Contents
  6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  7. FOREWORD / Imagining the Architecture of Possible Futures
  8. INTRODUCTION /The Importance of Optimism
  9. 01. INFRASTRUCTURAL URBANISM in the Expanded Field
  10. 02. REINVENTING INFRASTRUCTURE / Why Now?
  11. 03. INFRASTRUCTURAL OPPORTUNISM / Three Strategies
  12. 04. INFRASTRUCTURAL OPPORTUNISM /Two Cases
  13. 05. CONCLUSION: Next Generation +10/Options for a Contentious Era
  14. 06. Notes from Sheltering in Place
  15. CREDITS
  16. INDEX