Landscape as Infrastructure

Landscape as Infrastructure: A Base Primer, 1st Edition, is a book that examines the convergence of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning. The text explores how ecological concepts increasingly inform contemporary engineering practices.

The volume addresses urgent territorial challenges facing contemporary regions, including shifting climates, dynamic material flows, and population mobilities. It examines how living biophysical systems can operate as functional urban infrastructure to shape future economies and regional cultures.

Responding to the limitations of twentieth-century master planning and technological over-exertion, the work advocates for the design of infrastructural ecologies. It emphasizes adaptive frameworks to replace centralized, monofunctional planning traditions, examining metabolic landscapes as a primary focus.