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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 M

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Author

Jane Elizabeth Hutton

Publisher

Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317569060

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, History, Science