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.
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