CONTENTS
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Editors and Contributors xvii
SECTION 1 Function and Process
Chapter 1 Green Functionalism: A Brief Sketch of Its History and Ideas in the United States and Germany,
Thomas Hauck and Daniel Czechowski 3
Chapter 2 Carefully Radical or Radically Careful? Ecology as Design Motif 29
Greet De Block
Chapter 3 The City That Never Was: Engaging Speculative Urbanization through the Logics of Landscape, Christopher Marcinkoski 47
Chapter 4 Landscape as Energy Infrastructure: Ecologic Approaches and Aesthetic Implications of Design, Daniela Perrotti 71
Chapter 5 Landscape Machines: Designerly Concept and Framework for an Evolving Discourse on Living System Design 91
Paul A. Roncken, Sven Stremke, and Riccardo Maria Pulselli
Chapter 6 Problems of the Odumian Theory of Ecosystems 113
Georg Hausladen
SECTION II Culture and Specificity
Chapter 7 The Garden and the Machine 137
Thomas Juel Clemmensen
Chapter 8 Infrastructure Design as a Catalyst for Landscape Transformation: Research by Design on the Structuring Potential of Regional Public Transport 153
Matthias Blondia and Erik De Deyn
Chapter 9 Beyond Infrastructure and Superstructure: Intermediating Landscapes 171
Soeren Schoebel and Daniel Czechowski
Chapter 10 Landscapes of Variance: Working the Gap between Design and Nature 193
Ed Wall and Mike Dring
Chapter 11 Designing Integral Urban Landscapes: On the End of Nature and the Beginning of Cultures 209
Stefan Kurath
Chapter 12 Counterpoint: The Musical Analogy, Periodicity, and Rural Urban Dynamics 225
Matthew Skjonsberg
SECTION III Governance and Instruments
Chapter 13 A Transatlantic Lens on Green Infrastructure Planning and Ecosystem Services: Assessing Implementation in Berlin and Seattle 247
Rieke Hansen, Emily Lorance Rall, and Stephan Pauleit
Chapter 14 The Concept of "New Nature": A Paradigm Shift in How to Deal with Complex Spatial Questions 267
Susanne Kost
Chapter 15 Ecological Network Planning: Exemplary Habitat Connectivity Projects in Germany 285
Manuel Schweiger
Chapter 16 Planting the Desert: Cultivating Green Wall Infrastructure 301
Rosetta Sarah Elkin
Chapter 17 Designing for Uncertainty: The Case of Canaan, Haiti 323
Johann-Christian Hannemann, Christian Werthmann, and Thomas Hauck
SECTION IV Applied Design


Chapter 18 Water-Sensitive Design of Open Space Systems: Ecological Infrastructure Strategy for Metropolitan Lima, Peru 355
Eva Nemcova, Bernd Eisenberg, Rossana Poblet, and Antje Stokman
Chapter 19 Green Infrastructure: Performance, Appearance, Economy, and Working Method 385
Paulo Pellegrino, Jack Ahern, and Newton Becker
Chapter 20 The Caribbean Landscape Cyborg: Designing Green Infrastructure for La Parguera, Puerto Rico 405
Jose Juan Terrasa-Soler, Mery Bingen, and Laura Lugo-Caro
Chapter 21 Forests and Trees in the City: Southwest Flanders and the Mekong Delta 427
Bruno De Meulder and Kelly Shannon
Index 451