CONTENTS
Prologue
Precaution & Preconditions
Acknowledgments
I - PREPOSITIONING
Disorganization of the Book
A Landscape Manifesto
Systems of Systems
II - PROCESSING
Redefining Infrastructure
Synthetic Surfaces
Ecologies of Disassembly
III - PROJECTING
Landscape as Infrastructure
Foodshed
Metabolic Landscape
Regionalization
Infrastructural Ecologies
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Re-Reading Infrastructure
Urbanism, without Infrastructure?
Biography
Pierre Bélanger is a cartographer, curator, author, educator, and builder originally trained as a landscape architect and urban planner. With transdisciplinary expertise in the areas of ecology, infrastructure, media, and urbanism, he founded the Landscape Infrastructure Lab and OPSYS Media in 2001. Selected books and publications include LANDSCAPE AS INFRASTRUCTURE, ECOLOGIES OF POWER, GOING LIVE, RISK ECOLOGIES, WET MATTER, EXTRACTION EMPIRE.
"Bélanger, a self-proclaimed landscape urbanist, argues that a new, ecologically informed set of conceptual frames and material techniques will replace the tradition of reductive, monofunctional, centralized approaches to infrastructure that have dominated urbanization up to now."
—Gale Fulton, ASLA, Director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Landscape Architecture Magazine
