Infrastructure and the rebuilt post-war city: Birmingham School of the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, UK, 25 March 2013

摘要

The prospect of sitting through a conference dedicated to the subject of infrastructure might not normally set the heart racing. The word infrastructure conjures up images of conduits, cabling, plumbing and sewerage. However, as one of the organizers Peter Larkham (Birmingham City University) pointed out in his introduction to this one-day conference, infrastructure is integral to urban form. Also, as was demonstrated in the subsequent presentations, infrastructure can shape patterns of everyday life, and even unrealized infrastructure projects can have an impact on the design of individual buildings.