Title: Landscape as infrastructure :
Authors: Bélanger, Pierre,
Date: 2017
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
Physical description: 507 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Foreword : Infrastructure as lived experience / Rosalind Williams -- Preface -- Prepositions -- A landscape manifesto -- Systems of systems -- Redefining infrastructure -- Synthetic surfaces -- Ecologies of disassembly -- Landscape as infrastructure -- Foodshed -- Metabolic landscape -- Regionalization -- Infrastructural ecologies -- Imaging infrastructure -- Re-reading infrastructure -- Urbanism, without infrastructure?
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Infrastructure (Economics); Landscape architecture.; Sustainable development.