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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Urban Regeneration: Foresting Vacancy In Philadelphia 

Invasive Species

Project: Living Breakwaters Location: Staten Island, NY Firm: SCAPE / Landscape Architecture Year: 2013 Competition: Rebuild by Design Website: Rebuild by Design – Living Breakwaters Project Description: The Living Breakwaters concept design was developed by the SCAPE / Landscape Architecture team for the U.S. Department of … Continue reading →

One Percent: Mining Bone Valley

by Rob Holmes, Lauren Sosa & Christie Allen

Florida is the epicenter of phosphate mining in the United States. The sheer scale of the impact of this extraction on the Floridian landscape is immense. As it grows, phosphate mining is producing enormous accidental monuments to the current American way of life.

Infrastructure Adrift: West 8's Shells

by Laura Tepper

The Dutch government commissioned West 8 to create a project along the Roggenplaat, one of several artificial islands used to construct a storm surge barrier. The firm shaped the island’s sand deposits into plateaus bold enough to impress passing drivers. So, where is it?

Landscape Urbanism: Definitions & Trajectory

by Christopher Gray

Long described as an “emerging” practice, landscape urbanism—with all of its ambiguity and complexity—has in fact already emerged and represents a significant 21st century design and planning ethos.

Pit and Quarry: The Cement and Slate Landscapes of Pennsylvania

by Frank Matero

The Lehigh Valley gave rise to several world-class extractive industries, including steel and cement production, coal mining, and slate quarrying. How should we preserve this rich industrial heritage?

The Culture Now Project: High Speed Small Town

Connecting isolated opportunities to create integrative solutions: How the High speed rail and a state university will change the culture of California.

Building the Urban Forest

by Stephanie Carlisle, Nicholas Pevzner & Max Piana

The forest carries deep cultural significance. Within the urban landscape, this ecologically complex system is also understood to perform a wide range of essential ecosystem services, from increasing property values to mitigating climate change. Reforesting cities is one of the defining trends of twenty first century urbanism, but there is little agreement about how our urban forests are to be designed, planned and managed.

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