topos 117 | curated by West 8

For Georg Media, West 8 has created the first guest-curated issue of topos that deals with the topic of infrastructures. West 8, where roughly 70 landscape architects, architects, urban designers and engineers are designing and shaping landscapes all over the world from their offices in Rotterdam, Brussels and Philadelphia, is multidisciplinary, thinks in complex, largescale terms and develops concepts and visions for major planning projects that address the big questions of our time. With the curated issue the office highlights different dimensions of infrastructures, their design and characteristics. The result is a multi-colored and interdisciplinary mixtape. With it, West 8 defines a manifesto for designing the 21st century city: CLOVER21 - "a cultivated, landscape-forward, open, vibrant, ecological and responsive city”.