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Landscape interpretations of infrastructure-led developments: plans, spaces and appropriations in contemporary China

In: Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities

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  • Leonardo Ramondetti

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This chapter presents landscape interpretations based on visual media as a method of exploring how infrastructures convey imaginaries, shape new territories and relate to daily practices. Official documents, critical representations and photographs are used to investigate plans, spaces and forms of appropriations. Drawing upon literature on urbanism and landscape architecture, this approach is first examined, and then adopted to address the infrastructuration of the Chinese territory, where non-spatial socio-economic and political readings still prevail. Landscape interpretations offer another level of understanding that opens to new problematisations on the rationale behind infrastructural projects, the spaces and ecologies they produce and are entangled with, and the practices they generate. This understanding is also the first step to embracing an imaginative, design-oriented attitude to new infrastructure-led developments.

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  • Leonardo Ramondetti, 2024. "Landscape interpretations of infrastructure-led developments: plans, spaces and appropriations in contemporary China," Chapters, in: Olivier Coutard & Daniel Florentin (ed.), Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities, chapter 10, pages 161-178, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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