ABSTRACT

Ageing infrastructures and changing landscapes offer opportunities for renewal and adaptation. While traditionally seen as separate challenges, we think the integration of landscape and infrastructural renewal can bring about solutions better tailored to future needs. This paper provides a conceptual framework, called Infrascape, that can study and explain the interdependent infrastructure-landscape relationship. The Infrascape framework uses coevolution to combine nested levels of infrastructure (object, network, system) with a pattern-process perspective on landscape. We explored the analytical abilities of this framework in a case study of the Danube river landscape near Vienna, Austria. In our case study, the Infrascape framework helped identify multiple instances of coevolution between infrastructure and landscape. The coevolution of infrastructure and landscape featured in the Infrascape framework, clarifies the reciprocal implications of infrastructural renewal for landscape transformations and vice versa. As such, Infrascape forms an important contribution to the study and development of renewal strategies for sustainable infrastructure landscapes.

摘要

老化的基础设施和不断变化的景观为更新和适应提供了机会。虽然传统上被视为单独的挑战，但我们认为景观和基础设施更新的整合可以带来更适合未来需求的解决方案。本文提供了一个概念框架，称为 Infrascape，可以研究和解释相互依赖的基础设施-景观关系。Infrascape 框架使用协同进化将基础设施（对象、网络、系统）的嵌套级别与景观的模式过程视角相结合。我们在奥地利维也纳附近的多瑙河景观案例研究中探索了该框架的分析能力。在我们的案例研究中，Infrascape 框架帮助识别了基础设施和景观之间协同进化的多个实例。Infrascape 框架中基础设施和景观的共同进化阐明了基础设施更新对景观改造的相互影响，反之亦然。因此，Infrascape 对可持续基础设施景观更新策略的研究和开发做出了重要贡献。