Dead City

Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay

AvPaul Dobraszczyk

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-23
Mått:140 x 218 x 28 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Continnuum-3PL
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781784537166

Utforska kategorier

Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Paul Dobraszczyk is a visiting lecturer at the Bartlett School ofArchitecture in London. His research focuses on visual cultureand the built environment from the nineteenth century onwards,and he is author of Iron, Ornament and Architecture in VictorianBritain (2014) and London's Sewers (2014), as well as co-editorof Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within (2016) andFunction and Fantasy: Iron Architecture in the Long NineteenthCentury (2016).

Recensioner i media

`The Dead City is an elegantly argued and lacerating insight into our contemporary collective “ruin lust”. The book binds together stunning images and carefully crafted prose in an elegy to ruin aesthetics, moving adroitly between critical commentary to personal experience and propelling the reader into unexpected introspection.’ Bradley L. Garrett, University of Sydney

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: urban ruins, exploration and the imaginationI: Histories1Post-apocalyptic Londons: imagining the death of a city2Remnants of disaster: ruins in post-industrial ManchesterII: Explorations3Fantasy and experience: ruin gazing in Varosha4Disaster and memory: the ruins of Chernobyl and PripyatIII: Futures5Urban futures, art and the imagination of Detroit6Suspended futures: urban ruins in reverse