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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Industrial ruins"”.
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The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island
The inscription of a strange-looking industrial site- coalmine on Hashima- on the World Heritage Site has proved to be the most publicly contested debate of heritage making work between Japan and Korea The debate about this place brings up poignant questions with regard to not only the significance …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… The Crater (1847). Similarly, I contend that the industrial ruins a young Thoreau discovered in the Maine woods spurred him to imagine a suddenly depopulated Massachusetts in his journal. These postapocalyptic fantasies often attempted to deny the ongoing presence and property claims of Native …
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Sense of place visualization for the whaling station remains of South Georgia Island
… sense of place visualization for the shore-based industrial whaling station remains of South Georgia Island from a phenomenological position. The whaling stations on South Georgia were in operation from 1904 to 1965 before being abandoned, and at times these stations were the epicentre of …
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Revealing the Grid
Ruins have always fascinated me. These eerie, abandoned, man made buildings, hold you in awe. Buildings no longer in use, tell their story through whatever remains. What does one do with the ruins? Preserve, destroy or reinterpret? How do you build with ruins? How much do you destroy? How much do …