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The design of infrastructural networks-that is, roads, railways and any system that enables flow within a structure such as a city-is among urban design's foremost tasks. Around the globe, the awareness of enhanced infrastructure fluidity as a catalyst for economic development is rising. The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure investigates how infrastructure design determines the organization and flow of the inhabited landscape-as an agency of enhanced mobility, as a design feature contributing to the character of a city and as a sound theoretical approach to a positive experience of collective space. These issues are explored in four chapters that catalogue these approaches, each chapter buttressed with key projects from the world's most important designers in this field, including Arata Isozaki, Paul Andreu, Xaveer De Geyter, Jean Nouvel and Ricardo Bofill. The authors demonstrate how the creative potential of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design is essential to the effective flow of infrastructural networks.
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Nanette Virden
reviewed The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure on February 23, 2015 The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure
I remember seeing a copy of this book in school (maybe in S. Parsons' hands), but only recently picked it up and read it for the essays by Corner, Girot, Marot, and Descombes. Lately, I've been seeking out the books like this one (and there are several) with essays that cover a variety of topics in contemporary landscape practice but also always sort of herald the emergence(some, like this one, were written almost ten years ago) of "landscape urbanism" as a new field. I have to admit that I find the new category useful only in that it seems to bring together great essays on landscape. And there is, in fact, a sort of direction shared by most of these writers and practitioners.
It's really exciting stuff to read. Alex Wall's essay, "Programming the Urban Surface," and Bart Lootsma's, Synthetic Regionalization," stand out as excellent surveys of this trend. I'm also particularly partial to the texts by Girot, Descombes, Berrizbeita, and Mathur. James Corner's essay (possibly more than his introduction) is also an exciting entry into these topics (which I will continue to be vague about for now).
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