Landscape as Infrastructure

First published 2017
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Dedicated to the memory of Michael Hough—landscape architect, urban ecologist (1928–2013): “Total control is impossible, biodynamics can only be triggered, manipulated, amplified, attenuated or registered. Nothing is new; everything exists already in one form or another.”

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Landscape as Infrastructure: A Base Primer / Pierre Bélanger.
New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015049549
Subjects: 1. Landscape Architecture. 2. Sustainable Development. 3. Infrastructure (Economics)
SB472 .B3585 2016
DDC 712 — dc23
LC Record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049549

ISBN: 978-1-138-64391-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-64392-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-62915-5 (ebk)

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Funding: Harvard Graduate School of Design, Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, Netherlands Architecture Fund, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, University of Toronto Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and Wageningen University.