Urban landscape infrastructures

• DOI: 10.7480/rius.3.874
• Publication Date: 2015-04-01
• Authors: Steffen Nijhuis; Daniel Jauslin
• Keywords: Place identity; Green infrastructure; Urban infrastructure

This paper explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and infrastructure. The hybridisation the two concepts, infrastructure, seeks to redefine beyond its strictly utilitarian definition, while allowing design disciplines gain operative force in territorial transformation processes. aims put forward urban infrastructures concept, considering them armatures for development facilitating functional, social ecological interactions. It infrastructural an interdisciplinary effort to establish local identity through tangible relationships place or region. Urban can thereby be used vehicle re-establish role integrating practice. positions contemporary discourse on infrastructures. space flows, opposed places, is introduced impetus develop concept into more comprehensive form architecture. Furthermore, this outlines set principles typical suggests three potential fields operation: transport, green water these structures crosscutting field that involves multiple which designers essential.