Landscape as Infrastructure: A Base Primer – eBook

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As ecology emerges as the forefront of engineering innovation, the concept of viewing landscape as infrastructure is gaining unprecedented importance. This book delves into the urgent integration of urban planning, civil engineering, and landscape architecture amidst the pressing challenges that urban areas encounter today. Issues such as climate change, shifting populations, and evolving material flows are critically examined and addressed within these pages. In response to the shortcomings of traditional master planning and the overwhelming reliance on outdated technological systems from the late twentieth century, Landscape as Infrastructure: A Base Primer (ePub/PDF) advocates for the thoughtful design of “infrastructural ecologies.” This transformative concept proposes a cohesive landscape of living biophysical systems functioning as urban infrastructures, steering the future dynamics of urban economies and cultures well into the 21st century.

Authored by Pierre Bélanger, a prominent Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, this work is not just a book; it’s a manifesto for the future of urban landscapes. Bélanger, a key member of the Landscape Architecture Department and the Advanced Studies Program, orchestrates graduate courses that explore the convergence of ecology, urbanism, and infrastructure across the interrelated domains of design, planning, and engineering. His expertise as both a landscape urbanist and architect has earned him prestigious recognitions, including the Canada Prix de Rome in Architecture in 2008, and he served as the Curator for the Canada Pavilion and Canadian Exhibition, “EXTRACTION,” at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale (extraction.ca). His extensive background also features the Pamphlet Architecture Series from Princeton Architectural Press, 35^th Edition, with the title GOING LIVE: from States to Systems (pa35.net), alongside his co-authorship of the forthcoming book ECOLOGIES OF POWER: Mapping Military Geographies & Logistical Landscapes of the U.S. Department of Defense. Additionally, he is the co-editor, with Jennifer Sigler, of the 39th issue of Harvard Design Magazine, titled Wet Matter.

NOTE: The product includes the ebook, Landscape as Infrastructure: A Base Primer, in the original ePub format. A converted PDF is available upon request. Please note that no access codes are included.