Anxious Landscapes: From the Ruin to Rust

The entrance into of the metropolitan infrastructure  has deteriorated from what was intentionally created for the landscape.  Many metropolitan areas have turned into ruins, which inhabit filthy land which are disturbing to the eye and discomforting for those who experience them.  

Nature has obliterated itself in these metropolitan areas. 

Natural nature no longer lives here, but instead has morphed into asphalt, warehouses and rusty cars. 

Technological landscape: objects within park, bridges.  - in contact with natural setting  The relation between man made constructions and nature is inverted.  In urban infrastructural landscapes,  the city stops being in the landscape and is now the landscape itself.  

Impressionists: city became landscape more independently from the framework of nature.    The city absorbed the countryside.  Infrastructures and equipment have obtained bigger importance then the era when sewage systems were a novelty.  

In cities, large infrastructures have not disappeared, but technology has penetrated everywhere beneath the cement and piers of buildings.  You cannot see the technology but it is still everywhere.  The presence is almost haunting in the form of billboards, video screens etc.  The ATM and road system in the neighbourhood both contain the same amount of connections in the electronic circuits, even though both items are on completely different scales.

The question seems to be: how does this landscape form itself when the intention was to create a functional urban scape.  The landscape is the visual perception, and the person who experiences it passes judgement as it appears, not by what is within.

As the timeline progresses, terms are explained which capture the feeling within the landscape: Imprisonment through the these landscapes and how sustainable development can hinge the vulnerability of these environments.

Technical objects begin to seem draining because the become so commonly used.  After awhile the contemporary technology morphs into connections of technological framework which make up the city. There is no escape of technology, it almost seems like a humans every move is marked within the space

Can over equipped city that surrounds us be considered landscape, even with aesthetic connotations attached to term? The aesthetic of a landscape resides in the visual perception and in the culture.