{"product_id":"reciprocal-landscapes-9781138830684","title":"Reciprocal Landscapes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? \u003ci\u003eReciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements \u003c\/i\u003etraces 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReciprocal Landscapes \u003c\/i\u003eshows us what matters about landscape by revealing what matter is doing in it – where it came from, why it was taken, and how it was extracted, worked, fought over, and transported. Original in conception, rigorous in execution, Hutton’s book is nothing less than a brilliant synthesis of materialisms ‘historical’ and ‘new’; an incisive model for the critical analysis of landscape.\" – \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas Spencer, Director of Graduate Education and Associate Professor, Iowa State University, USA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReciprocal Landscapes \u003c\/i\u003eshows us what matters about landscape by revealing what matter is doing in it — where it came from, why it was taken and how it was extracted, worked, fought over and transported. Original in conception, rigorous in execution, Hutton’s book is nothing less than a brilliant synthesis of materialisms ‘historical’ and ‘new’; an incisive model for the critical analysis of landscape.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eDouglas Spencer, Director of Graduate Education and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Inexhaustible Terrain: Guano from the Chincha Islands, Peru to Central Park, 1862 2. Range of Motions: Granite from Vinalhaven, Maine to Broadway, 1892 3. Rivers of Steel: Steel from Pittsburgh to Riverside Park, 1937 4. Breathing with Trees: London Plane Trees from Rikers Island to 7th Avenue, 1959 5. Arresting Decay: Tropical Hardwood from Para, Brazil to the High Line, 2009\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019530568023,"sku":"9781138830684","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138830684.jpg?v=1750780544","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reciprocal-landscapes-9781138830684","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}