Paisajismo Online. Gilles Clément jardinier, le jardin en mouvement, je jardin planétaire et le tiers paysage. Landscape Infrastructures DVD : opsys. Landscape Infrastructures DVD edited by Pierre Bélanger (Toronto, Canada: National Research Council Canada, 2009).
DVD 439 min. 4-Disc Set English NTSC ISBN 978-0-7727-8820-7 ©2008-2009 University of Toronto – Centre for Landscape Research – Landscape Infrastructure Lab Foregrounding the reciprocity between landscape and infrastructure, this one-day symposium gathers a series of influential thinkers and practitioners from around the world to discuss emerging practices, paradigms and technologies that are reshaping the contemporary urban landscape. Reexamining the historically divisive, technocratic nature of engineered infrastructure, the symposium aims at formulating a more synthetic vision of urban infrastructure as a landscape that combines ecological and economic imperatives of big cities and urban regions.
The DVD disc-set is available online through the Harvard University COOP or the University of Toronto Bookstore. Stemming from the precedent-setting research of Howard T. Graduate School of Design - Homepage. Pierre Bélanger is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director of the MDes Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
As part of the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Advanced Studies Program, he teaches and coordinates graduate courses on the convergence of ecology, infrastructure and urbanism in the interrelated fields of design, planning and engineering. Responding to the growing inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in public works today, Bélanger has formulated the term “landscape infrastructure” used today by governments, professionals and academics worldwide to designate how the field of landscape is redefining the morphology of urban infrastructure in research, pedagogy and practice vis-à-vis the complexities of sub-urbanization and super-urbanization.
Cited by urbanists such as AbdouMaliq Simone, Elizabeth K.