Indispensable Eyesores : : An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings / / Mélanie van der Hoorn.
Collapsing concrete colossuses, run-down overgrown skeletons, immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment, which we are dying to dispose of — and yet cannot do without — have inspired many ghost stories, crime novels and urban legends. Such narratives reveal the signific...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Remapping Cultural History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- 1. Dragons, Tunnels, Gold and Russians: Narrative Introductions into the Bowels of ‘Corrupt’ Architecture
- 2. Between Pragmatic Clearance and Pure Iconoclasm: Theoretical Perspectives on the Life and Death of Undesired Buildings
- 3. 13 May 2001, 8.01 A.M. – 1 Building, 20,000 People and 450 Kilograms of Explosives: The Elimination of the Kaiserbau in Troisdorf as a Secular Sacrifice
- 4. Witnessing Urbicide: Contested Destruction in Sarajevo
- 5. From Nuclear Waste to a Temple of Consumerism: The Recuperation and Neutralization of the Ex-would-be Nuclear Power Plant in Kalkar
- 6. Consuming the ‘Platte’ in East Berlin: The Revaluation of Former GDR Architecture
- 7. If Not Clearing, Then At Least Thinking Them Away: The Significance of Unrealized Proposals and the Viennese Flaktürme
- 8. ‘L’ like ‘Left to Its Own Devices’: The Progressive Dilapidation of the Kulturhaus in Zinnowitz
- 9. Exorcizing Remains: Architectural Fragments as Intermediaries between History and Individual Experience
- 10. In Fond Memory of a Rejected Edifice: Reaffirming Agency by Rehabilitating Vanished Eyesores
- 11. Eyesores Are Indispensable: Concluding Remarks
- Epilogue. Taboos on the Multi-Sensory Materiality of Buildings and Their Agency
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index