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

• Main Author: Whitehouse, Tanya (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Aesthetics.; Cities and towns-History.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Sociology, Urban.; Urban History.; Urbanism.; Urban Studies/Sociology.

This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value. It draws on a variety of sources to explore modern ruins, the ruin tradition, and the phenomenon of "ruin porn." It features an unusual and original combination of philosophical analysis, the au...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Prologue: Ruins, and "Ruin Porn," in American Cities
• 2. Fascination with Ruins
• 3. From Blight to Beauty: The Controversial Creation of the First US Industrial-Heritage Park
• 4. Detroit: New Ruins and Old Problems
• 5. Resolving Our Judgments: Understanding How Ruins Acquire and Exhibit Aesthetic Value
• 6. The Ruin-Industrial Aesthetic: Ruins, and Ruin-Like Environments, Acquiring Aesthetic Value
• 7. Assessing Function and the Ruin Category
• 8. Epilogue: Ruins Rising from the Ashes.