"Such a reexamination of infrastructural space involves the recognition that all types of space are valuable, not just the privileged spaces of more traditional parks and squares, and they must therefore be inhabitable in a meaningful way. This requires the rethinking of the mono-functional realm of infrastructure and its rescue from the limbo of urban devastation to recognize its role as a part of the formal inhabited city. Designers need to engage with this infrastructural landscape: mundane parking facilities, difficult spaces under elevated roads, complex transit interchanges, and landscapes generated by waste processes. Landscape urbanism also suggests that this happens by an instrumental engagement with ecological processes as well as Whit the function of infrastructure and the social and cultural needs of the community...This relationship between natural systems and the public infrastructure of the city begins to suggest a means of developing urban strategies through the development of networks of landscape infrastructure related to ecological systems."
Elizabeth Mossop "Landscapes of Infrastructure" in The Landscape Urbanism Reader , ed C Waldeheim, Princeton University Press, New York 2006, p121-122
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