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This paper proposes a combined methodology for the quantitative analysis of the correlations between the monitored influencing environmental factors and the water saturation induced deterioration of earthen relics in a humid area.
Mei Dong +5 more
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Urban Ruins: Visuality of Social Meanings
Architectural ruins in the context of the urban landscape carry many meanings and functions: they reflect changes in fashion, security, cultural values, and show the peculiar struggle of urbanization and the “recapture” of abandoned places by plants and ...
Dmitrij Sergeevich Polikarpov +2 more
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Low-level Eschatology: Ruins in Computer Games
The ruins are a well-studied object in the history of culture. The article examines the ruins not only in terms of established approaches, but also from the perspective of media theory, visual ecology and game studies, new humanities oriented on ...
Alexander S. Lenkevich
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Owners and managers of the thousands of medieval ruins around Europe face the challenge of preservation despite limited options for modern use of their sites.
Silvia Soldano +2 more
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Urban Ruins and the Neo -Picturesque Landscape
While classical ruins are seen as tourist destinations, contemporary or industrial ruins are dismissed as disused sites. In this paper I argue for the preservation of urban (or contemporary) ruins.
Elizabeth Scarbrough
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"Scomporre e ricomporre il patrimonio. Dialogo con Martino Pedrozzi"
"Martino Pedrozzi operates in Canton Ticino. His architectural production ranges from renovations to ex novo interventions; among the most remarkable projects, the interventions on the abandoned heritage of high mountain pastures in Val Malvaglia are ...
Roberto Dini, Stefano Girodo
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The conservation of traumatic ruins: A sensitive issue to improve urban resilience
Preserved urban ruins convey a social and political message, sometimes with great impact. Whereas stakeholders often tend to cancel the traces of disaster, the conservation of ruins has been the consequence of much disputed decisions.
Antoine Le Blanc
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A vida se ergue mesmo nas ruínas: os jardins do inumano como paisagem essencial
Based on anthropological studies that are critical of the so-called Anthropocene and its impact on the planet and other forms of life, this article, also taking into account the point of view of native peoples, analyses how the concept of inhumanity can ...
Renata Villon
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Ruins: Between Past and Present, Between Culture and Nature
The main question of the essay is: do ruins need a new definition? Ruins are not only destroyed architecture, but also everything that has been associated with it in the process of life.
Beata Frydryczak
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‘My city of ruins’: A city to come
‘My city of ruins’ is the title of a song by Bruce Springsteen and will accompany a public theological reflection of imagining alternative cities. A city of ruins is either a city of ruins in the sense that it is a city in ruins.
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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