Infraestructura Y Memoria: De Las Terrazas Agrícolas De Geddes A Los Paisajes Superpuestos De Beigel

Abstract

Studies such as those undertaken in the city of Edinburgh by Patrick Geddes can help us to appreciate the particular sensitivity of certain town planners of the early twentieth century to the reuse and recycling of physical and psychological traces of agricultural infrastructure, overcoming the limited visions that established rigid conceptual boundaries between town and country. It is a perspective that transcends the classification of landscapes and is rooted in a broad concept of heritage and territory. The ability to infer future forms and activities from pre-existing infrastructures anticipates some of the issues that some architects and landscapers developed from the 1960s. Far from being purely figurative principles, the different forms of continuity elicited in their projects allow us to explore both the found material remains and their effects and relationships, in a constant search for processes and arguments able to link the agricultural past and its infrastructures with the future of cities that continue to expand over the territory.