General Bibliography
Dekkers, Midas. The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins. trans: Marx-Macdonald, S. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux: 2000.
Edensor, Tim. Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality. London: Berg, 2005.
Fritzsche, Peter. ‘Ruins’ in Stranded in The Present: Modern Times and the Melancholy of History. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Ginsberg, Robert. The Aesthetics of Ruins. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
Hamm, Manfred. Dead Tech: A Guide to the Archaeology of Tomorrow. Hennessey & Ingalls, 2000.
Harbison, Robert. The Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable. Massachusetts: MIT, 1991. esp. Chapter 4
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
Jacobs, Jane M. “The Consequences of Ruins: Contemplations on Social Memory and Loss of Place in Australia.” Journal of Historical Geography 23:4 (Oct 1997): 500-505.
Macaulay, Rose. The Pleasure of Ruins. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.
Makarius, Michel. Ruins. Flammarion, 2004.
Patrik, Linda E. “The Aesthetics Experience of Ruins” Husserl Studies 3 (1986)
Picon, Antoine “Anxious Landscapes: From the Ruin to the Rust” trans: Bates, K. in Grey Room 01 (Fall 2000) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/picon/ruinerouille.pdf
Piggott, Simon. Ruins in a Landscape: Essays in Antiquarianism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1976.
Piper, John. “Pleasing Decay” in Buildings and Prospects. Architectural Press, 1948.
Rasch, Wolfdietrich. “Literary Decadence: Artistic Representations of Decay” in Journal of Contemporary History 17:1 (January 1982).
Rhodes, R. “The Ruin Aesthetic: Constructing the Deconstructive Landscape A Didactic Poem.” Tymieniecka, Anna-Theresa. Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite. Kluwer Press, 2002.
Roth, Michael, et. al. Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 1997.
Simmel, Georg. ‘The Ruin’ in Wolff, Kurt H, ed. Essays on Sociology, Philosophy and Aesthetics. NY: Harper and Row, 1965.
Smith, W. S. “Medieval Ruins and Wordsworth’s The Tuft of Primroses: `a Universe of Analogies’.” in Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa, ed. The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life Passions of the Soul in the Imaginatio Creatrix. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
Trigg, Dylan. “Ambiguous Boundaries: Cane Hill and the Resistance of Space” Inside Out (Arts Council of England, 2005) http://www.art-architecture.co.uk/insideout/?location_id=18
Trigg, Dylan. “The Uncanny Space of Decay” in Crosswalk 1:1 (May 2004) http://www.pipsworks.com/crosswalk/prov04/c1dylan.html
Tschumi, B. Architecture and Disjunction. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001.
Vergara, Camilo. American Ruins. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999.
Woodward, Christopher. In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature. London: Vintage, 2001.
Zucker, Paul. Fascination of Decay: Ruins: Relic – Symbol – Ornament. Ridgewood: Gregg Press, 1968.
Zucker, Paul. ‘Ruins: An Aesthetic Hybrid’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 20: 2 (Winter 1961).