"In traditional landscapes, the productions of man surrendered themselves progressively to nature in the form of the ruin. The ruin reintegrated, in successive stages, the traces of human activity into the cycles of nature. There is nothing of the sort in the contemporary city, where objects as if by magic are instead relegated to obsolescence, a bit like the living dead who endlessly haunt the landscape, preventing it from ever becoming peaceful again. We have gone from ruin to rust, from trace to waste."
— Antoine Picon, Anxious Landscapes: From the Ruin to Rust
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