Reciprocal Landscapes - Stories of Material Movements (Paperback)

How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials - fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood - from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes - the material's source and the urban site where the material ended up - together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material's movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2019
First published:	2016
Authors:	Jane Hutton
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-83068-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-83068-2
Barcode:	9781138830684

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