ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the study of paired landscapes of production and consumption generates a spatial framework for examining the social and ecological relations of their material exchange. It draws from Robert Smithson's practice of juxtaposing the representations of production sites and designed sites, David Harvey's challenge to trace an everyday object in order to de-objectify it, Elaine Hartwick's narration of linkages between production and consumption, and B. Latour and William Cronon's shared insistence on the relationship between multivariate actors. The landscapes of the Fox Islands, Ambridge and the Amazon Forest of northern Brazil are linked to Central Park, Riverside Park and the High Line, respectively, through the movement of stone, steel beams or lumber from one to the other. They represent a coastal quarry reliant on marine transport, an inland fabricator tied to rail networks and iron suppliers and a distant forest linked by truck and marine networks.
