Argument is that economy and environment today have become inseparable and mutually codependent whereas, in the past, urban industrial economied were forced to contaminate and destroy the environment in service of the economy (Belanger 2009). Infrastructures that, in the past, were only engineered to support urban economies should now simultaneously support the environment. As a consequence, infrastructure, once the sole purview of the profession of civil engineering, is taking on extreme relevance for landscape planning and design practices. Belanger describes how landscape practice stands to gain momentum by widening its sphere of intervention to include the operative and logistical aspects of urbanization and talk of new paradigms of longevity and performance, which decisively break with the Old World pictorial, bucolic, and aesthetic tradition of landscape design (Belanger 2009).