Unlock Now Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics And Materiality Produced By Tim Edensor Released Through Publication

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 overdesigned 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 destroying such evocative sites in order to build 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, An interesting project to consider the value and context of "wastelands" at the heart of urban landscapes, It includes a variety of photographs, some quite compelling, but none of them labeled which

was disappointing, Edensor makes a case for not labeling them but his explanation did not suffice and I felt I needed captions to better contextualize them within the text.
The philosophical exercise he is engaged in for theorizing space as a livedin place even when it comes to wasted spaces and industrial ruins is intriguing but it gets a little thin theoretically sometimes.
Edensor also plays it a little fast and loose with other theoretical texts, It is nevertheless a useful text to read to think about landscape and the urban environment, particularly as he makes some good points about how natural features come to interact with engineered spaces.
what we overlook in our daily lives, industrial buildings that have fallen into disuse, Edensor takes as a case study for exploring space, cultural production, social practices, and posthuman relations in urban environments.
He both contextualizes our relation to ruins historically via film, literature, and philosophy and at the same time examines their function within a postindustrial world, For anyone interested in writing relevant books on contemporary culture, this book is a fabulous model, His personal investment in his subject matter and his interdisciplinary methodology foster an incredibly dense yet accessible book, His personal photographs provide another narrative layer of his journey in probing the many wonders and functions of ruins and their ability to unravel and challenge binaries that have contributed to maintaining social order.
Academic British fellow waxes poetic about modern industrial ruins, There are some good ideas here, but this book really needs to be translated into more accessible language, The obfuscation of seemingly commonplace tropes is readily apparent when attempting the refutation of dystopian metaphors in favor of a more egalitarian perspective on the delineations of postindustrial space.
Tim Edensor is Reader in Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University, He has contributed to five areas of scholarship: geographies of tourism, national identity, industrial ruins and urban materiality, geographies of rhythm and spaces of illumination and darkness.
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