Landscape As Infrastructure by Bélanger Pierre

Author:Bélanger, Pierre
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317243175
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Urban Ecologies

Over the past two decades, the emergence of the field of landscape ecology29 has contributed to a more in-depth understanding of the long-term effects of industrialization and urbanization on biophysical systems. Together with late-century visualization technologies (from satellite photography, to ground-penetrating radar, and deepwater sonar imaging) and to the explosion of the environmental sciences, these effects can now be better understood both at the macro- and micro-scale. Whether they are exogenous or endogenous, processes such as eutrophication, combined sewer overflow, sediment contamination, exotic fish populations, depleting water reserves, or seasonal floods can no longer be perceived as local or site-specific incidents but rather are best characterized as part of a large, complex hydrology that is inextricably and irreversibly connected to patterns of urbanization.30 The slow yet large-scale accumulated effects of near-water industries and upstream urban activities, once considered solely at the scale of the city, are now more effectively understood at the scale of the region.

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