Ruins Reused - Michael Thompson

Historic and often picturesque ruins have been an integral part
of the British landscape for many centuries. They have been an
influencing factor in the development of art, architecture and
landscape management. However, it is only in relatively recent
years that people have become interested in what these ruins
could reveal about the nation's past. This book marks a return to
an interest in ruins that Michael Thompson had when he wrote on
the subject in 1981. This time the interest is in the development
of an active relationship between the public and ruins as to how
they can be preserved and used, and Thompson looks at
developments throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
and figures such as Richard Colt Hoare, Ruskin, Morris, Lubbock,
and Lord Curzon and the roles they played in the treatment and
preservation of ruins.