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Embracing Detroit's urban ruins
The current urban landscape of Detroit reflects the fallout from the city’s tumultuous history of racial turmoil and social and spatial segregation. Since the “white flight” to the suburbs of residents and the institutions they controlled, Detroit has become an “urban prairie” characterized by the …
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Aesthetics in Ruins: Parisian Writing, Photography and Art, 1851-1892
… lines of inquiry concerning representations of ruins in Paris. I first identify a turning point in the evolution of the ruin leitmotif beyond Romanticism in its transfer into a new context: modern Paris. The analysis demonstrates the correlation between this leitmotif and urban environment in …