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Ruins

63 Alfred Street [Detroit]
American Ruins
Atopses and Modern Ruins
Brian Dillon, 'Decline and Fall,' Frieze Magazine 130 (April 2010)
Brian Dillon, 'Fragments from a History of Ruin,' Cabinet Magazine 20 (Winter 2005/6)
Brian Dillon, 'Listening for the Enemy,' Cabinet Magazine 12 (Fall/Winter 2003) [on sound mirrors]
Brian Finocki, 'The Ruin Machine,' Where We Are Now, 17 Oct 2009
Brian Finoki, 'The Anatomy of Ruins,' Triple Canopy 9
Brian Ulrich: Not If But When
Celeste Headlee, 'Is "Ruin Porn" Art or Journalism?' The Takeaway, 6 June 2010
Dark Passage
David Walsh, ‘Detroit in Ruins,’ World Socialist Web Site, 5 May 1997 [on Vergara]
Detroit's Ghetto
Detroit: The Documentary
Decadence of Decay
Derelict London
Derelict Places: Documenting Decay [forum]
Detroit UnReal Estate Agency
Detroit: City of Ruins, New York Times
Edwin Gardner, 'Intellectual Disaster Tourism,' Archined, July 8 2010
Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
Field Guide to Aircraft Boneyards
Furnace Press
George Steinmetz, 'Drive-By Shooting: Vision and Division in the Documentation of Detroit'
Irina Ivanova, 'Detroit Assembled,' The Indypendent, 28 July 2010 [review of 3 Detroit books]
Jonathan Mahler, 'GM, Detroit and the Fall of the Black Middle Class,' New York Times, 24 June, 2009
Jonathan Oosling, '"On the Media" looks at Detroit "ruin porn"' mlinve.com Sept 28, 2009
Jonathan Oosling, 'LIFE turns lens to Detroit's "geography of ruin and hope"' mlive.com, Feb 2010
Julia Hell, 'Ruins Travel: Orphic Journeys Through 1940s Germany,' in John Zilcosky, ed., Writing Travel (University of Toronto Press, 2008).
LIFE Magazine, 'Detroit: Still Life' Feb 5, 2010
Mark W. Smith, 'Videos of Detroit Ruins Spark Buzz,' Freep.com, 16 Sept 2010
Michael Chanan and George Steinmetz, Detroit: Ruin of a City [press pack] 2005
Robert Hackman [Albania bunkers]
Ross Perlin, 'Letter from Motor City,' openDemocracy, 9 June 2009
Ruins of the Twentieth Century [Brian Dillon]
Svetlana Boym, 'Tatlin, or Ruinophilia,' Cabinet Magazine 28 (Winter 2007/08)
Tim Edensor: Spaces of Dereliction: Industrial Ruins in the UK
Thomas Morton, 'Something, Something, Something, Detroit' Vice Magazine 2010
TIME Magazine, 'The Remains of Detroit,' 2010
Weburbanist: 33-Part Guide to Abandoned Places
Wellspring of Ruins
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre [Ruins of Detroit]

Reenactment

Artangel: Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave
Errol Morris, 'Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part One),' New York Times, April 3, 2008.
Errol Morris, 'Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part Two),' New York Times, April 10, 2008.
Katie Kitamura, '"Recreating Chaos": Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave' [PDF]
Maria Muhle, 'Omer Fast: When Images Lie... About the Fictionality of Documents,' Afterall 20 (Spring 2009)
Robert Blackstone, 'Once More With Feeling: Reenactment in Contemporary Art and Culture,' Art Journal (Spring 2007)

Bunkers

20th Century Castles, LLC [missile base properties for sale]
Anneke Bokern, 'Under Cover: Christian Schwager's Fake Chalets'
Ark Secure Storage
ArtBunker-Verein
Atlantic Wall Linear Museum
Australian Bunker & Military Museum
Barbican's Curve Gallery Transformed into a World War II Bunker
Beautifying the Bunkers, Kashmir News 16 Apr 2006
Brighton Road Shelter (Cane Hill Bunker)
Bunker 13
Bunker in Hamburg
Bunker in Niedersachsen & Bremen
Bunker in Wilhelmshaven
Bunker Pictures
Bunker-Filme.de
BunkerBlog
Bunker Research Group
Bunkers, Tunnels, Fortifications in Australia During World War 2
Bunkersite: Atlantic Wall
Bunkertours: Virtual Bunker Tours on the Web
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
Civil Defense Museum
Cyberbunker
Decommissioned: Turnstile Nuclear Bunker
Deep Darkness
Defence Line of Amsterdam
Diefenbunker
Dover Castle and the Secret Wartime Tunnels
Dover Underground Videos
Erasmus Schroeter [Bunker and Waffen]
Erasmus Schroeter [Hiding in Plain Sight]
Essex Secret Bunker
Flak Towers
Flak Towers [in German]
Fort-CH
Gravesend's Secret Cold War Bunker
Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
Hamburger Unterwelten e.V.
Inside a shuttered Cold War Bunker, Newsvine.com 5 Nov 2009
Isle of Wight Fortifications and Batteries
Kashmir's 'City Of Bunkers,' Countercurrents.com 30 Oct 2007
Kelveton Hatch Secrect Nuclear Bunker
Leo Fabrizio: Bunkers
Liverpool War Museum
Lostplaces
Luftschutz-Bunker.de
Military Ruins
New Dutch Waterline
Nora Schmidt, 'Indestructible Remembrance: The conversion of European bunkers'
North Korea's Underground Bunkers, Radio Free Asia 16 Nov 2009
Nuclear fallout Beijing: Mao's underground city
Null Stern Hotel
PillboxesUK
Plans for Austria's Nazi-era towers spark controversy, BBC News 18 April 2010
Rietveldt Landscape: Bunker 599
ROC Remembered
Royal Air Force Air Defence Radar Museum
Sammlung Boros
Scotland's Secret Bunker
Second World War bunker in Cornwall converted to holiday home
Secret Bases
Somerset Pillboxes
South East Defence Photos
Stichting Bunkerbehoud
Subterranean Exploration
U-Boat Base, Kiel, Germany
Under-Ex
Underground Kent
White Cliffs Underground
World War II: Pillboxes a Poignant Legacy, The Telegraph 22 Jan 2010
WW2 & Cold War History in Britain
WWII Coastal Defences at Cuckmere Haven
York Cold War Bunker

Heap of Language

Ballardian
Barrett Watten
Reality Street
Science Fiction Studies
VISCO: Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover art
Pynchonoid

General

28dayslater - The UK UE Urbex Urban Exploration Forums
A Secret Landscape: America's Cold War Infrastructure
a456
Abandoned Places
Absent Without Leave [Ivan Pope]
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin: Chopped Liver
Adam Curtis: The Medium and the Message
Airminded
Alain Willaume
Alice Aycock
Americansuburbx
An-My Lê
Andrea Zittel
Angus Boulton
Anthony Auerbach
Archigram
Arcosanti
AtlantikWall
Atlas Group
Atlas Obscura
AUDC
Bart Michiels
BBC Nation on Film: The Fishing Industry
Berliner Unterwelten e.V.
Between Channels
Bill Brown
Bill Brown's YouTube videos
BLDGBLOG
blitzandblight.com
Bomb Project
Boris Becker
Broken City Lab
Buckminster Fuller Institute
Bureau of Atomic Tourism
Bureau of Inverse Technology
Cai Guo-Qiang
Camilo José Vergara: Invincible Cities
Center for American Places
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Chinati Foundation
Christian Schwager
Clastic Detritus
Coast Defense Study Group [USA]
Cold War Museum
Concrete Quarterly
Cornford and Cross
Critical Art Ensemble
Critical Spatial Practice
critical-regionalism.com
Cryptome
Cultural Landscape Bibliography
Cyberbadger [Martin Dodge]
Cynthia Hooper
Dark Passage
Dave's Landslide Blog
David Maisel
David McMillan: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
David Taylor
Defence of Britain Project
Dia Art Foundation
Dia Beacon
Dienststelle Marienthal
Disused Stations on London's Underground
Double Negative
Dubtown Urban Exploring
Edgar Lissel
Edward Burtynsky
Electric Eden [Rob Young]
Exotic Audio Research
Experimental Geography Reading List
Fiona Crisp
First Pulse Projects: Spiral Jetty
From Here to Modernity
Future of Landscape and the Moving Image
Gabriele Basilico
Gair Dunlop
Gilad Ophir
Googie Architecture
Gordon Matta-Clark And Le Corbusier
Gregory Green
Guido Guidi
High Desert Test Sites
High Line
Hiromi Tsuchida: Hiroshima
Hoverports
HTC Experiments [David Gissen]
HUTS.com
Iain Sinclair
Ice House Detroit
Implosion World
indiemaps.com
Industrial Photography Archive
Infiltration [urbex]
InfoTechWarPeace
James Q. Jacobs' Rock Art Pages
James Turrell: Roden Crater
Jan Jornmark: Deserted Places
Joachim Bandau
Joan Fontcuberta
John Darwell
John Kippin
John Lautner Foundation
John Pfahl
John Powers, 'Star Wars: A New Heap'
John Schott
Jonathan Olley
Jordan Crandall
Judd Foundation
Justin Partyka
Kazys Varnelis
Ken Hollings
L A N D
L00K: Laura Kurgan Design
Land Arts of the American West
LAND2
Landscape + Urbanism
Landscape and Arts Network
Landzine
Lens Culture
Leo Fabrizio
Library of Congress: The Historic American Buildings Survey
London's Abandoned Tube Stations
Long Now Foundation
Los Angeles Conservancy
Lost America
Louise K. Wilson
Making Maps: DIY Cartography
Mark Power
Mark Ruwedel
Martin Roemers
Matthias Koch
Megastructure Reloaded
Melik Ohanian
Michael Light
Michael Shanks
MRLD
Naoya Hatakeyama
NASA and Spaceflight News
Neolithicsea
Nevada Test Site Tours
NEWSgrist
Noa Ben Shalom
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton
Nuclear Files
O: SNAP
Observatoire du Land Art
Office of Experiments
Old Airfields: The Disused Airfields of Eastern England
Oliver Heissner
Orford Ness
Our God Is Speed
P-REX
Paleo-Future
Parallel Landscapes
Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork
Patrick Wright
Paul Seawright
Peter Goin
Photocartographies
PLaCe
Place Hacking [Bradley L. Garrett]
Polar Inertia: Journal of Nomadic and Popular Culture
Portsdown Tunnels
Post-Traumatic Urbanism
Power House Productions
Public Collectors
Radical Cartography
Revisiting Michael Heizer's Double Negative
Richard Ross
Robert Polidori
Robert Smithson
Roi Kuper
Safe as Mother's Milk: The Hanford Project
SAIGA Yuji
Sam Durant
Sarah Pickering
Scott Hocking
Sesquipedalist
Shai Kremer
Shaun O'Boyle: Modern Ruins
Shedworking
Shrinking Cities [Kyong Park]
Side-Effects [Dylan Trigg]
Simon Norfolk
Sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy [Owen Hatherley]
Ski-Ffy
Slab Magazine
Smudge
socialism and/or Barbarism [Evan Calder Williams]
Some Landscapes
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors Project
Sound Projector
Sounding East
Soundscrapers
Spacearts
spaceflightdesign
Spacetwo : Patalab
Steve Rowell
Steven B. Smith
Strange Harvest
Strange Maps
Studio Orta
Subterrania Britannica
Subtopia: A Field Guide to Military Urbanism
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
TELOSscope
Telstar Logistics
Temporary Services
The Dirt
The Measures Taken [OwenHatherley]
The Vanishing Point
Theater of Peace
Third View: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West
Thomas Struth
Trevor Paglen
Twentieth Century Society
UK Fortifications Club
Unknown Fields
Unspoken Cinema
Urban Doctrine
Urban Omnibus
Urban Resources
Uta Kogelsberger
V2: Institute for the Unstable Media
Vague Terrain
Ventures & Adventures in Topography
View from the North
Vincent Fournier
Walter Derungs
Where London Stood
Wildlife Watching Hides
William L. Fox
Write off the Map [Amy Cutler]
YH485 Press 
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