Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality

Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality

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 an 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. Stunningly illustrated throughout, this book celebrates industrial ruins and reveals what they can tell us about ourselves and our past.
Country USA
Brand By
Manufacturer Berg Publishers
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 80 b&w illustrations, bibliography, inde
ReleaseDate 2005-05-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781845200770

Country	USA
Brand	By
Manufacturer	Berg Publishers
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	80 b&w illustrations, bibliography, inde
ReleaseDate	2005-05-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781845200770

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