ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the ways the fabric of a city may embody cyclical patterns that are inherent to landscapes. Focusing on Dublin, Ireland, it explores how it is possible to read a site as a palimpsest rather than a linear progression of sharply defined layers. Monumental industrial infrastructures, particularly rail and canal networks, substantially altered Ireland's terrain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; yet portions of them were either destroyed under vegetation less than a century following their construction. The chapter observes two fragments of these infrastructures and clarifies their original role within Ireland's transportation network. It holds potential for redevelopment, and several proposals for their renewal are reviews in detail. One specific plan a greenway would draw Dublin into growing international movement that transforms industrial transit routes into public spaces. It shifts orientation to evaluate how Dublin's infrastructures were constituent parts of wider landscape that was intrinsically connected with the patterns and cycles of food production, distribution and consumption.
