How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition

By Tanya Whitehouse

Prologue: Ruins, and "Ruin Porn," in American CitiesChapter 1: Fascination with RuinsChapter 2: From Blight to Beauty: The Controversial Creation of the First U.S. Industrial-Heritage ParkChapter 3: Detroit: New Ruins and Old ProblemsChapter 4: Resolving our Judgments: Understanding How Ruins Acquire and Exhibit Aesthetic ValueChapter 5: Assessing Function and the Ruin CategoryChapter 6: Ruins Rising From the Ashes

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030030644
• ISBN13: 9783030030643
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"