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Having argued that modern ruins do qualify as genuine instances of the ruin phenomenon, and vindicated our interest in them as well as some ruins photography, I turn finally in this chapter to some suggestions about what we can do with such ruined environments, and how we have and should value and treat them, given their unexpected new status.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but we must take the sow’s ear in question and successfully convert it to a silk purse, to use Richard Haag’s phrase.
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Constantin François de Volney, The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1397/1397-h/1397-h.htm; Chaps. 3–5.
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de Volney, Constantin François. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And the Law of Nature. Accessed September 7, 2018. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1397/1397-h/1397-h.htm.
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Whitehouse, T. (2018). Epilogue: Ruins Rising from the Ashes. In: How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03065-0_8
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