Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality

by Tim Edensor

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845200764
• ISBN13: 9781845200763
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"