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Author:
Whitehouse, Tanya, author.
Title:
How ruins acquire aesthetic value : modern ruins, ruin porn, and the ruin tradition / Tanya Whitehouse.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
x, 122 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Ruins, Modern.
Architecture--Aesthetics.
Aesthetics.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Prologue: Ruins, and "ruin porn," in American cities -- chapter 2. Fascination with Ruins -- chapter 3. From blight to beauty: the controversial creation of the first US Industrial-Heritage Park -- Chapter 4. Detroit: new ruins and old problems -- chapter 5. Resolving our judgments: Understanding how ruins acquire and exhibit aesthetic value -- chapter 6. The ruin-industrial aesthetic: Ruins, and ruin-like environments, acquiring aesthetic value -- chapter 7. Assessing function and the ruin category -- chapter 8. Epilogue: Ruins rising from the ashes.
Series:
Palgrave pivot
ISBN:
9783030030643
3030030644
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1055263711
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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