Main entry:

Bélanger, Pierre, 1971-

Title & Author:

Landscape as infrastructure : a base primer / Pierre Bélanger ; foreword by Rosalind Williams.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Description:

507 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (come color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-497) and index.
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?

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781138643918 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1138643912 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781138643925 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1138643920 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315629155

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Sustainable development.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Architecture du paysage.
Développement durable.
sustainable development.
ARCHITECTURE Landscape.
Infrastruktur
Landschaft
Landschaftsgestaltung
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadtforschung
Stadtlandschaft
Stadtökologie
Stadtplanung
Städtebaupolitik
Technische Infrastruktur
Verstädterung
Zukunftsplanung

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293976
Call No.: BIB 239250
Status: Available