LAF 004_Logistics in the Woods

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“重测瓦尔登”项目

林中物流： 描绘瓦尔登湖及其全球本土化资源传递 创

Logistics in the Woods:

Initiative Practice

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梭罗的小屋

Mapping Walden and its Glocal Resource Relays 16号半径/15号铁路

实 践

梅格·斯杜德

摘要 ……

Abstract ...

尽管近来景观都市主义将关注点放在农业乌托邦以及分

Despite recent Landscape Urbanist interest in agrarian utopias and

候选人

散聚落策略方面，但梭罗的《瓦尔登湖》，或称《林中生活

dispersed settlement strategies, Walden , or Life in the Woods , a canonic conservation text, is still often read as an inward-looking, pastoral

景观设计师；纽约大学交互式通信硕士

Meg STUDER

散记》，这部经典的环境保护主义著作，仍然被解读为关于

Landscape Architect; Master

自我审视的田园生活经历。笔者目前的项目— “边缘运

experiment. My current project, Edge Operations or Logistics in the

Candidate, Interactive

作”或称“林中物流”，则对《瓦尔登湖》进行了“量化分

Woods , ‘runs the numbers’ from Walden . Appropriating Thoreau’s peri-

Telecommunications at New York

析”。“边缘运作”研究透过梭罗的“城郊”视角，关注由

urban position, Edge Operations works outward from Walden Pond

University

瓦尔登湖向外扩展的一系列过程— 从林地到壁炉、到临近

— from woodlots to fireplaces, adjacent rails to global markets — re-

的铁路运输线、再到全球市场— 从而重现了美国南北战争

constructing the (domestic) consumption patterns of antebellum Boston

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前的波士顿地区的资源消费模式，试图探寻一个不同视角下

for an alternate history of climate control, industrialization, and its (sub)

陆小璇 Xiaoxuan LU

的气候控制、工业化，以及城市（或城郊）资源系统等方面

urban resource systems.

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的历史。

This essay describes the origin of this project and the research used

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本文以该项目的原起以及用于追溯梭罗与物质世界的对

to trace Thoreau’s material encounters. Excerpts from “Re-Surveying

立的研究为主要内容。“重绘瓦尔登”是本研究中的一个章

Walden”, one chapter of the project, map Thoreau’s descriptions of the

节，试图通过地图绘制重现梭罗所描绘的1846年的采冰贸

ice harvest of 1846. These, with primary and secondary sources — in

易。运用科学史、统计学、测量学以及后结构主义建筑理论

history of science, statistics, surveying and post-structural architectural

中直接和间接的资料，本文对这一与景观都市主义中常见的

theory — are explored for their resonance with quantitative, global

全球尺度量化地图法以及过程图形化相呼应的题目进行了探

mappings and the process diagrams typical of landscape urbanism. As

索。如同凯勒·伊斯特林的《番茄世界》或皮埃尔·比朗格

in Keller Easterling’s Tomato World or Pierre Bélange’s contemporary

尔的一系列当代景观研究，“边缘运作”或“林中物流”项

research, Edge Operations or Logistics in the Woods highlights the

目强调了存在于（走向工业化的）农业中的潜在挑战、社会

complex, dynamic, and process-based alliances of (industrializing)

经济矛盾以及政治决策过失等各个方面之间复杂、动态以及

agriculture, its lurking contests, socio-economic conflicts, and political

基于过程的联系。

culpabilities.

关键词 ……

Key words ...

瓦尔登湖；全球化；物流；田园风格；测绘；都市主义

波士顿

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林间小屋—瓦尔登湖地区区位图 © Meg Studer Cabin location — Walden's metropolitan location map © Meg Studer

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Walden; Globalization; Logistics; Pastoral; Mapping; Urbanism

1 林中生活

2 局限的景观视角

4 定位“边缘运作”

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采冰 光秃山峰

有林木覆盖的山峰

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实 践 铁路路基

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崩溃的消费

4.1 系列结构和南北战争前的科学

5 超越和谐的“生产性”景观

房产、冰窖 饮用水

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铁路基础设施

工业提取

采冰场地

划出/手工蚀刻的初始边缘

在初始边缘的基础上划出网格

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国际市场 锯下第一排冰，撬开并向下推

实 践

Initiative Practice

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锯下大冰块

在冰上划线并割锯

州际出口

撬开，使之浮起并滑行

将其滑动、升起并堆放

波士顿市场 本地采购

工业开采

平均每日采冰量

外部堆放

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1847年冰块市场

铁路

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5~6吨冰/车 运往结盟采冰场地

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1 Life in the Woods

Walden’s larger location — adjacent to the

closeness to unspoiled nature… confined to [2]

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daily commute, I stumbled across Graham

appreciation of the telegraph was as literal

glocal economic engagements embedded in

Walden ’s extravagant episodes.

Walden , or Life in the Woods was based

new Fitchburg rail and telegraph lines, amidst

middle-class urban citizens.”

Leo Marx, in

D. Burnett’s “The Singing of the Grid”, in

and humdrum in 1847 as it was a case of

(loosely) on a homesteading experiment

the fringe fields and shifting occupational

Machine in the Garden , reiterates Jackson’s

Cabinet . In this essay, Burnett explores how

romantic embellishment.

by Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond

structures catalyzed by industrial and agro-

interpretation, but recognizes that Walden

Thoreau, typically suspicious of technological

In short, Burnett’s shrewd tectonic

and Woods in 1846 ~ 1847 (revised and

market specialization — has made Walden

was far from “unspoiled”. For Marx, the key

development, could nonetheless claim to be

attention made me wonder, “what else

Thus, in fall 2012, I began my current

finally published in 1854) (Fig. 1, 3).

key to debates in the history of science,

episode is Thoreau’s rhapsody on the melting

infatuated with the songs of “the telegraph

was lurking between literary metaphor

project, Edge Operations or Logistics in

Thoreau’s iterative descriptions of his daily

literature, environment, technology, and thus,

railway banks in the spring. In Thoreau’s

harp.... Always the same unrememberable

and mundane logistical links, in the socio-

the Woods . As I started to read through

activities, social, seasonal, and wildlife

synthetically speaking, landscape architecture.

description, the bank’s eroding forms and

revelation to me. It allies Concord to Athens

material relays of Walden Pond and Woods?”

Walden , I gravitated toward two types of

their fantastic resemblances reconcile nature,

and both to Elysium. It intoxicates me,

If we think of Thoreau as “taking measure”

research: First, a contextualizing tradition

makes me sane.” After reviewing Thoreau’s

of shifting landscapes, perhaps his eidetic

within literary history situates Thoreau’s

georgic references, Burnett combines literary

images did not necessarily lack rigor.

[5]

encounters have been read in multiple ways: as authentic wilderness withdrawal,

2 Limited Landscape Perspectives

society, institutions, and industry. Within the [3]

[4]

as squatters’ civil critique and as parody

From within the design disciplines,

of picturesque, suburban migration. Such

Walden has been read conservatively, as

Two years ago, as a graduate of Penn’s

exegesis with tonal and technological history.

Perhaps, it was just that we, as landscape

varying interpretations spring from Thoreau’s

exemplary of common landscapes and

landscape urbanist program and an associate

Retracing the early mounting practices, he

urbanists and historians, had yet to read

mix of sardonic social commentary, romantic

imaginative withdrawal. John Brinckerhoff

at Stoss, I would have scoffed at the idea of

highlights how the single-wire structure of

these images historically, as Burnett had

literary tropes, and natural history episodes.

Jackson considered it emblematic of the

reading Thoreau. Why spend time on such

early telegraph lines at Walden vibrated,

done; perhaps we had yet to excavate the

In addition to these genre manipulations,

“romantic feeling for solitude and for

transcendental imagery? But then, during my

or sang, in the wind. Thoreau’s affective

novel footprints, tectonic typologies and

imagination, “nothing is inorganic”.

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work that are resonant with contemporary

mutually between natural history and literary

Walden easily translate into typologies; his

interest in visualizing big, territorial data, in

genres. In Seeing New Worlds , Laura

iterative encounters map the different scales

particular, his engagement with 1) antebellum

Dassow Walls explores Thoreau’s writings

of material engagement, comparing individual

science and 2) period surveying and statistics.

in relationship to the materialist research

and industrial approaches within the same

I would like to take a moment to look at these

methods of Alexander Von Humboldt:

chapter.③

specific examples, using secondary research

explore, collect, measure and connect. She

For example, if we return to “Re-Surveying

and “Re-surveying Walden”. I think they

draws a direct line between Humboldt’s

Walden”, the initial harvesting diagrams

exemplify how Walden , when remapped,

“ansicht” (visual synthesis) methodology

are drawn from Thoreau’s own description,

dovetails with landscape urbanist interest

and the cyclic, symmetrical closure of

staged in terms of increasing labor force,

in agrarian urbanism, dispersed settlement

践

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each chapter in Walden .

[7]

As landscape

instruments, and organizational complexity.

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architects, we are familiar with Humboldt’s

strategies, and global logistics chains. 冰柜货车运输

graphics: eco-type transects, isotherm 4.1 Serial structures and antebellum science

冰柜储存

(atmospheric) mappings, and serial river /

Several secondary works explore

mountain sections. If we re-read Thoreau’s

Thoreau’s adaptation of serial, iterative

cyclic closures as analytic arguments akin to

descriptive devices, transferring techniques

Humboldt’s serial diagrams, the episodes of

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depictions in relation to the active

consumption patterns. In my reading, the

excavation, Thoreau’s allusions are far from

commercial, agricultural, and itinerate

pond becomes a key interpretative node for

indifferently idealist. His scattered citations,

settlements at Walden Pond. ① Second,

drawing out the spatialized history of climate

from farmer ’s almanacs and mercantile

recent environmental research focuses on

control, industrialization, and their (sub)urban

literature, point toward the historical

Thoreau’s relationship with antebellum

resource systems.

symbiosis of 1) refrigeration and rail and 2)

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My first series of maps, entitled “Re-

ballast ice and global shipping. “Re-surveying

Given these two contexts, Walden seemed

surveying Walden,” took the “The Pond in

Walden” thus maps these logistical chains,

古巴

ideally poised for re-reading as resource

Winter” (Chpt. 14) as their point of departure

visualizing profound effects, between 1830

英属西印度群岛

streams; mapping Thoreau’s cultural and

(Fig. 1 ~ 10). In Walden , these winter episodes

and 1860, on agricultural specialization,

economic criticism in terms of the material

are where Thoreau contrasts his minimal

urban food supplies, and the global imports

links bridging physical site to social world

surveying marks with the ice-industry’s

underpinning northern industrialization (Fig.

and territorial abstraction. Edge Operations

“invasive and inefficient” harvesting practices

6 ~ 10).

thus works outward from Walden’s peri-

(Fig. 2). In mapping Boston’s ice industry, my

science, surveying, and land-use politics.

加尔维斯敦

巴拿马

英属圭亚那河

旧金山

秘鲁

转运过程中融化 离开波士顿的天数

雷梅迪奥斯 斯里兰卡

孟买 马尼拉

4 Recognizing Edge Operations

urban position — from woodlots to fireplaces,

aim was to contextualize Thoreau’s seemingly

from adjacent rails to global markets. In

contradictory criticism and global reveries

While researching this series, I became

doing so it reconstructs antebellum Boston’s

on the ice trade. As in Burnett’s telegraphic

familiar with several aspects of Thoreau’s

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牛肉 旧金山

冰块贸易的发展和衰落

实 践

奴隶 西班牙

贸易伙伴和回程

1847年（黑暗） 1864年（光明）

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波士顿

奴隶

苹果 牡蛎

糖浆

波士顿

糖 牛肉

芒果

波士顿

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运入波士顿的主要物资

原

贸易（1838~1880年类型）

糖、咖啡

波士顿

龙虾、鱼

古巴

橙

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鲸油

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酒

烟草

阿根廷

波士顿

大米

波士顿

棉花

利物浦

路线/返程

三角测量

苹果

奶酪+黄油

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