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100 1 _aHoorn, Mélanie van der.
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245 1 0 _aIndispensable eyesores :
_ban anthropology of undesired buildings /
_cMélanie van der Hoorn.
260 _aNew York :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c2009.
300 _axii, 266 p. :
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_c24 cm.
490 1 _aRemapping cultural history ;
_vv. 10
505 0 _aList of Illustrations Foreword Chapter 1. Dragons, Tunnels, Gold and Russians: Narrative Introductions into the Bowels of 'Corrupt' Architecture Chapter 2. Between Pragmatic Clearance and Pure Iconoclasm: Theoretical Perspectives on the Life and Death of Undesired Buildings Chapter 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 Chapter 4. Witnessing Urbicide: Contested Destruction in Sarajevo Chapter 5. From Nuclear Waste to a Temple of Consumerism: The Recuperation and Neutralization of the Ex-would-be Nuclear Power Plant in Kalkar Chapter 6. Consuming the 'Platte' in East Berlin: The Revaluation of Former GDR Architecture Chapter 7. If Not Clearing, Then At Least Thinking Them Away: The Significance of Unrealized Proposals and the Viennese Flakturme Chapter 8. 'L' like 'Left to Its Own Devices': The Progressive Dilapidation of the Kulturhaus in Zinnowitz Chapter 9. Exorcizing Remains: Architectural Fragments as Intermediaries between History and Individual Experience Chapter 10. In Fond Memory of a Rejected Edifice: Reaffirming Agency by Rehabilitating Vanished Eyesores Chapter 11. Eyesores Are Indispensable: Concluding Remarks Epilogue: Taboos on the Multi-Sensory Materiality of Buildings and Their Agency Notes Bibliography Index
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [238]-253) and index.
650 0 _aArchitecture and anthropology.
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650 0 _aArchitecture
_xHuman factors.
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650 0 _aAbandoned buildings.
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650 0 _aArchitecture and society.
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830 0 _aRemapping cultural history ;
_vv. 10.
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