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Terms and conditions applyIndustrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality
Tim Edensor
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Format: Book
Pages: 288
Publisher: Berg
Date Published: Mar 2005
Stock Code: 37784
Binding: Paperback
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Across Western cities, there is an increasing obsession with producing manicured landscapes. Standing in contrast to these aesthetically and socially regulated spaces are the neglected sites of industrial ruins, places on the margin which accommodate transgressive and playful activities. Providing a different aesthetic to the over-coded, over-designed spaces of the city, ruins evoke aesthetics of disorder, surprise and sensuality, offering ghostly glimpses into the past and a tactile encounter with space and materiality.
Tim Edensor highlights the danger of eradicating such evocative urban sites through policies that privilege homogeneous new developments. It is precisely their fragmentary nature and lack of fixed meaning that render ruins deeply meaningful. They blur boundaries between rural and urban, past and present and are intimately tied to memory, desire and a sense of place.
Illustrated throughout, this book celebrates industrial ruins and reveals what they can tell us about our past and ourselves.
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