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024 7 _a10.1515/9781845459215
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781845459215
035 _a(DE-B1597)636148
035 _a(OCoLC)647933072
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aSOC002010
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082 0 4 _a306.4/6
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHoorn, Mélanie van der
_eautore
245 1 0 _aIndispensable Eyesores :
_bAn Anthropology of Undesired Buildings /
_cMélanie van der Hoorn.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aRemapping Cultural History ;
_v10
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tForeword --
_t1. Dragons, Tunnels, Gold and Russians: Narrative Introductions into the Bowels of ‘Corrupt’ Architecture --
_t2. Between Pragmatic Clearance and Pure Iconoclasm: Theoretical Perspectives on the Life and Death of Undesired Buildings --
_t3. 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 --
_t4. Witnessing Urbicide: Contested Destruction in Sarajevo --
_t5. From Nuclear Waste to a Temple of Consumerism: The Recuperation and Neutralization of the Ex-would-be Nuclear Power Plant in Kalkar --
_t6. Consuming the ‘Platte’ in East Berlin: The Revaluation of Former GDR Architecture --
_t7. If Not Clearing, Then At Least Thinking Them Away: The Significance of Unrealized Proposals and the Viennese Flaktürme --
_t8. ‘L’ like ‘Left to Its Own Devices’: The Progressive Dilapidation of the Kulturhaus in Zinnowitz --
_t9. Exorcizing Remains: Architectural Fragments as Intermediaries between History and Individual Experience --
_t10. In Fond Memory of a Rejected Edifice: Reaffirming Agency by Rehabilitating Vanished Eyesores --
_t11. Eyesores Are Indispensable: Concluding Remarks --
_tEpilogue. Taboos on the Multi-Sensory Materiality of Buildings and Their Agency --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aCollapsing 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 significance of architectural eyesores for the people who live or work in or near them. After exploring various approaches to building lives and deaths, the author presents a rich variety of undesired edifices in Germany, Hungary, Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina and investigates the different methods used to dispose of them: eliminating, damaging, transforming or ‘reframing’ them, abandoning them to progressive dilapidation or virtually rejecting them. Discarding an edifice, however, need not bring its social life to an end. This analysis continues with a reflection on the afterlife of unwanted buildings, and concludes with a discussion on the life expectancy of buildings, their multi-sensory materiality and ‘thingly’ agency.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aAbandoned buildings.
650 0 _aArchitecture and anthropology.
650 0 _aArchitecture and society.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_xHuman factors.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
_2bisacsh
653 _aUrban Studies, Anthropology (General), Cultural Studies (General).
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459215
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845459215
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