INFRASTRUCTURAL FORM, INTERSTITIAL SPACES AND INFORMAL ACTS

‘As we drive across a motorway intersection, through the elaborately signalled landscape that seems to anticipate every possible hazard, we glimpse triangles of waste ground screened off by steep embankments.’
Concrete Island, J.G. Ballard

Ed submitted a book chapter for a forthcoming book on infrastructural urban design. The essay explores the interstitial spaces of the Westway in London through literature, planning and its use. The book follows the INFRASTRUKTURURBANISMUS conference organised by Thomas Hauck and Volker Kleinekort at TU Munich, www.infrastruktururbanismus.de, and is due to be published by DOM Publishers in the Autumn 2011.

The full essay can be read here and the book can be purchased here.

Images: Westway Development Trust 2010