Reciprocal Landscapes
Reciprocal Landscapes How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Each chapter…
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Reciprocal Landscapes
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? 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 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.