Indispensable Eyesores: An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings

by Melanie Van Der Hoorn

Collapsing concrete colossuses, run-down overgrown skeletons, immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment, which we are dying to dispose of - and yet cannot do without - have inspired many ghost stories, crime novels and urban legends. Such narratives reveal the significance of architectural eyesores for the people who live or work in or near them. After exploring various approaches to building lives and deaths, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845455304
• ISBN13: 9781845455309
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"