Industrial Ruins

Tim Edensor is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life.

• 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

'A whole new world is opened up through the pages and images of this exceptional publication.'Iain Borden, Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.'A beautiful book, moving and thought-provoking.' Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara 'Read this book, and you will never look at landscape in the same way again.'Paul Cloke, University of Bristol'An important addition to the bookshelves of industrial archaeologists, historians of the working class and students of contemporary culture.'Rob Shields, University of Alberta, Canada'In his compelling new monograph Industrial Ruins: Space Aesthetics , and Materiality, Tim Edensor sets out to undertake a much-needed landscape; what he finds by the end of his journey can hardly be considered terra nullius.'Benjamin Morris, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge'Edensor celebrates the industrial ruin and tells what such spaces and the artifacts they contain