Main entry:

Edensor, Tim, 1957-

Title & Author:

Industrial ruins : spaces, aesthetics, and materiality / Tim Edensor.

Publication:

Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Berg, ©2005.

Description:

vi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
Introduction * 1 The Contemporary Uses of Industrial Ruins * Using Ruined Space * Homemaking * Adventure Playgounds * 2 Mundane Leisure Spaces and Exemplary Sites * Artspace * Representing Ruin * Nature Reserves * Conclusion * 3 Ruins and the Disordering of Space * Spatial Ordering Ordering and Disordering * Ruins and Their Phantom Networks * The Aesthetics of Ruins * Performance and Sensation in Ruined Space * Conclusion * 4 Materiality in the Ruin: Waste, Excess and Sensuality * Wasted Spaces and Things * Material Excess and the Recontextualisation of Objects * The Affordances of Ruined Things * Conclusion * 5 The Spaces of Memory and the Ghosts of Dereliction * The Multiple Temporalities of Ruins * Theorising Memory * The Allegorical Resonances of Ruins * Ruins and Involuntary Memories * The Ghosts of Ruins * Conclusion.

Summary:

Illustrated throughout, this book celebrates industrial ruins and reveals what they can tell us about ourselves and our past.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781845200763 (cloth)
9781845200770 (pbk.)
1845200764 (cloth)
1845200772 (pbk.)
9781845200772

Subject:

Industrial archaeology.
Archéologie industrielle.
industrial archaeology.
Industriearchäologie
Industriebau
Technisches Denkmal
Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
Ruïnes.
Industriële archeologie.
Landschappen.
Hergebruik.
archéologie industrielle.

Added entries:

Industrial ruins, space, aesthetics, and materiality

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250610
Call No.: BIB 180107
Status: Available