Landscape Infrastructure : : Case Studies by SWA / / Ying-Yu Hung, Gerdo Aquino, Charles Waldheim, Julia Czerniak, Adriaan Geuze, Matthew Skjonsberg, Alexander Robinson.

Infrastructure is a much discussed topic within the field of landscape architecture. It regards the entire urban and rural space as a network that calls for an integrated planning and urban design approach. Natural and man-made infrastructures are viewed as forming a single, overarching whole. The b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Essays
  • Reading the Recent Work of SWA
  • Landscape Infrastructure: Systems of Contingency, Flexibility, and Adaptability
  • Foregrounding
  • Second Nature: New territories for the exiled
  • Modulating Infrastructural Flows to Create Open Space
  • Case Studies
  • Performance
  • Aggregate
  • Network
  • Increment
  • Project credits
  • The authors
  • Illustration credits
  • Acknowledgements