Fall 2019

Edited by Nicholas Pevzner & Stephanie Carlisle

Infrastructure is always political, and energy transitions have always been contested, pitting established players against upstart technologies and new coalitions. How can a radical reimagining of energy infrastructure create opportunities for an inclusive and participatory conversation about climate change and social justice? Who has the power to talk about infrastructure, and who gets left out?

Introduction: Power

Nicholas Pevzner & Stephanie Carlisle

Community Power As Provocation: Local Control For Resilience And Equity

José Juan Terrasa-Soler and Daniela Lloveras-Marxuach

Our Energy For Our Country

Arturo Massol-Deyá

Speculative Designs For Energy Democracy

Nicholas Pevzner

The TVA, Fuzzy Spaces Of Power, And Other Purposes

Micah Rutenberg

The Missouri River Basin: Water, Power, Decolonization, And Design

Kees Lokman

Power Plant Power

Salvador Lindquist and Eric Minton

Arctic Present: The Case Of Teriberka

Viktoria Khokhlova

Coal Ash Wastescapes: The Byproduct Of Our Coal-Fired Power Dependency

Lauren Delbridge

Biomass For All: Designing An Inclusive Biomass Infrastructure

Julie Marin, Charlotte Timmers and Bruno De Meulder

China’s Giant Transmission Grid Could Be The Key To Cutting Climate Emissions

James Temple

2050 – An Energetic Odyssey: Persuasion By Collective Immersion

Dirk Sijmons and Maarten Hajer

The Blue Lagoon: From Waste Commons To Landscape Commodity

Catherine De Almeida

Territory Of Extraction: The Crude North

Michael W. Smith

Daylighting Conflict: Board Games As Decision-Making Tools

Janette Kim

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Banyoles

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Urban Regeneration: Foresting Vacancy In Philadelphia 

Invasive Species

‘Big Old Tree; New Big Easy’ is an adaptable design proposal built upon the inherent qualities of New Orleans’ native tree species, and speaks to the potential of a simple urban forest strategy to engage the past, respond to critical current social and infrastructural issues, and maybe most importantly, nurture a ‘sustainable’ future.

Gold Mining Exploits and the Legacies of Johannesburg's Mining Landscapes

by Guy Trangos & Kerry Bobbins

An extensive network of abandoned mine shafts and tunnels exist beneath Johannesburg. Today, these spaces are lost to time, long forgotten and abandoned below the surface of the Earth.

Butte Montana: A Case for the Mining Metropolis

by Bradford Watson & Sean Burkholder

Extraction is an ugly process. Still, the vast resources present beneath the ground and the motivation to pull them to the surface are intimately tied to the settlement and permanent occupation of the landscape.

Introduction: Extraction

by Stephanie Carlisle and Nicholas Pevzner

Extraction sustains our society. The economic value of raw materials regularly outweighs concerns about the practices and processes required to bring them to market. But have we really grappled with the complex systems that landscapes of extraction expose?

Urban Regeneration: Foresting Vacancy in Philadelphia

by Chieh Huang

Urban Regeneration proposes a land management strategy for vacant urban land that accumulates parcels and turns them to forest, aiming to redefine the meaning and function of vacancy in a city.

Yangtze River Delta Project

by Catherine Seavitt

Coastal urban estuaries are dynamic sites. These sedimentary terrains must be reconsidered at the infrastructural scale to create a more resilient and adaptive landscape, a system that dynamically responds to the increasing risks of the coastal environment.

How Many Trees are Enough? Tree Death and the Urban Canopy

by Lara A. Roman

Realizing the ecosystem services benefits of tree programs depends on tree survival. Despite the focus on planting over the past few decades, overall canopy cover levels in major US cities have been declining.

50,000 Trees

by Sarah Moos

50,000 Trees explores how a ubiquitous and overlooked urban space — the freeway overpass — can become a site to strategically offset a significant part of the city’s carbon emissions at the source, with a man-made productive forest grown for carbon sequestration.

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