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In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to
critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013
American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its
innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a
smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical
America features Richard Misrach’s haunting photo-graphic record
of Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape
architect Kate Orff ’s Ecological Atlas—a series of
“speculative drawings” developed through research and mapping
of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the
complex cultural, physical, and economic ecologies along 150 miles
of the Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, an area
of intense chemical production that first garnered public attention
as “Cancer Alley” when unusual occurrences of cancer were
discovered in the region. This collaboration has resulted in an
unprecedented, multilayered document presenting a unique narrative
of visual information. Petrochemical America offers in-depth
analysis of the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the
largest river system in North America. Even more critically, the
project offers an extensively researched guidebook to the ways in
which the petrochemical industry has permeated every facet of
contemporary life. What is revealed over the course of the book,
however, is that Cancer Alley—although complicated by its own
regional histories and particularities—may well be an apt
metaphor for the global impact of petrochemicals on the human
landscape as a whole.
In 2009, the NAi-Ymere biennial celebrated the explorer Henry
Hudson, whose pioneering travels laid the foundation for the
development of New York City. In the vein of the Fort Amsterdam
military post he built on Manhattan's southern tip, participants
were asked to imagine new ways to transform the North Amsterdam
waterfront.
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