Landscape infrastructures emerging practices, paradigms & technologies reshaping the contemporary urban landscape.
Title:
Landscape infrastructures emerging practices, paradigms & technologies reshaping the contemporary urban landscape.
Author:
Landscape infrastructures: emerging practices, paradigms & technologies reshaping the contemporary urban landscape (2008 : Toronto, Ont.)
ISBN:
9780772788207
Publication Information:
Toronto : University of Toronto, Centre for Landscape Research, c2009.
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (439 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from container.
"Digital video proceedings of an international symposium organized and conceived by Centre for Landscape Research/Pierre Belanger."--Container.
Contents:
Disc 1: About the symposium -- Opening address: Operative practices / George Baird -- Introduction: Redefining infrastructure / Pierre Belanger -- Urbanizing Infrastructure / Stan Allen. Disc 2: Swamped: projects in two delta landscapes / Jane Wolff -- Landscape of energy / Michael Jakob -- New Natures/New York / Kate Orff. Disc 3: Question period & plenary session 1 -- Public water works / Herbert Dreiseitl -- Doing more with less / Julia Czerniak. Disc 4: Dynamic infrastucture / Kristina Hill -- Question period & plenary session 2 -- Closing remarks / Nina-Marie Lister -- Afterword: Landscape as infrastructure / Pierre Belanger -- Exhibition -- References -- Credits & copyrights.
Abstract:
"This one-day symposium gathers a series of influential thinkers and practioners from around the world to discuss emerging practices, paradigms and technologies that are reshaping the contemporary urban landscape." -- Container.
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