Landscape infrastructure : case studies by SWA / Ying-Yu Hung [and others] ; The Infrastructure Research Initiative at SWA (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hung, Ying-Yu.

SWA Group (Firm)

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture.

Land use--Planning.

Land use.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm

Edition:

Second and revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2013]

Contents:

Reading the recent work of SWA / Charles Waldheim

Landscape infrastructure : systems of contingency, flexibility, and adaptability / Ying-Yu Hung

Infrastructural ecologies: fluid, biotic, contingent / Pierre Bélanger

Foregrounding / Julia Czerniak

Second nature: new territories for the exiled / Adriann Geuze and Matthew Skjonsberg

Modulating infrastructural flows to create open space / Alexander Robinson

Performance. Buffalo bayou promenade + Rosemont pedestrian bridge, Houston, Texas, USA ; Anning River New South Town, Miyi County, China ; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA ; Ningbo eco-corridor, Ningbo, China

Aggregate. Lewis Avenue corridor, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ; Gubei pedestrian promenade, Shanghai, China ; Milton Street park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Network. Shunde New City, Shunde, China ; Katy Trail, Dallas, Texas, USA ; Beizhi River waterfront, Fuyang, China

Increment. Central open space in Mac competition, Chungcheongnam-Do Province, South Korea ; Jeffrey open space trail, Irvine, California, USA ; Master plan for the north lake region of Chongming Island, Shanghai, China ; Kyung-Chun closed railway renovation, Seoul, South Korea.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783034612722

3034612729

OCLC:

854879885