Pierre Bélanger is an independent landscape architect and urbanist whose work interrogates the systems and geographies of global resource empires. His writings delve into the complex interplay between nature, technology, and human society, often through a critical lens on infrastructure and its consequences. Bélanger analyzes how landscapes are shaped and transformed by logistical and military forces, offering profound insights into these processes. His approach emphasizes the need to reconsider our relationships with the environment and the systems that shape it.
Composed as a geopolitical treatise, this book proposes a counter-map to rebuild relations with the Cinchona plant and to challenge territorial destruction that continue to increase amidst state-sanctioned resource extraction and benevolent conservation.