The ReView: Common Good

Chapter 11: Landscape & Territory

Chapter 11 examines how landscape architecture and infrastructure can respond to climate change while also addressing environmental injustice and community needs. The chapter argues that infrastructure should do more than protect valuable property—it should support ecosystems, vulnerable communities, and public life at the same time. Projects throughout the chapter explore ways to reuse existing infrastructure, restore damaged landscapes, and work with natural systems rather than against them. The Gulf Coast Climate Futures Research Studio is a major focus, showing how designers can rethink shipping routes, power plants, military infrastructure, livestock agriculture, and abandoned oil pipelines to support ecological restoration and climate resilience. The chapter also emphasizes the importance of community knowledge, interdisciplinary research, and working across different scales, from individual sites to entire regions. Overall, it presents landscape and territory as shared resources and argues that design can help create more equitable, sustainable relationships between people, infrastructure, and the environment.

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