Infrastructural Optimism

Infrastructural Optimism explores a new twenty-first-century infrastructure that encourages a broader understanding of resource interdependence, equitable access, and environmental diligence. It defines infrastructure as the basis for a new form of urbanism, focusing on environmental symbiosis and quality of life. The book introduces dynamic and holistic performance metrics and twelve criteria for next-generation infrastructure. It is valuable for design, non-profit, agency professionals, and faculty and students in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 292 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Infrastructural Optimism delves into a novel concept of twenty-first-century infrastructure that fosters a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of resources and agencies, acknowledges the urgent demand for equitable access and distribution, and prioritizes heightened environmental stewardship across design disciplines. By integrating urban history, case studies, and speculative design propositions, the book explores and establishes infrastructure as the foundation for a new form of urbanism, emerging from the intersection of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. In defining this new infrastructure, the book introduces dynamic and holistic performance metrics centered around measuring what truly matters over mere growth for the sake of growth, along with twelve criteria that define the next generation of infrastructure. By shifting the focus of infrastructure, our vast public realm, towards environmental symbiosis and the well-being of all, design emerges as a catalytic force in shaping a more beautiful, productive, and optimistic future with Infrastructural Urbanism as its driving force.

This book will be of immense value to design professionals, non-profit organizations, agency staff, and faculty and students in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, collaborating closely with engineers, hydrologists, ecologists, urban planners, community members, and other stakeholders who shape the built environment through the expanded realm of infrastructure.

Weight: 1110g
Dimension: 322 x 294 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138481589