Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

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Landscape Infrastructure: Urbanism Beyond Engineering

Pierre Bélanger

HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN

INCREASINGLY, ecology is coming into focus as a strategy and system in the design of urban infrastructures and performance of urban economies.¹ This contemporary change is largely attributable to the massive transition from industrialization to urbanization worldwide in the past century made visible by three cumulative shifts: the rise of environmental concerns since the 1970s, the crisis of public works planning in the 1980s, and the erosion of post-war engineered structures from the 1990s onwards, whose legacy total more than 2.2 trillion dollars in urgently needed reinvestment.²,³ Contributing to the rising agency of the ...