Beauty redeemed : recycling post industrial landscapes Coping with post industrial sites is a pressing issue throughout Europe and North America. One point of departure for their general rediscovery was the revitalisation by Latz + Partner in the early 1990s of an abandoned steelworks as Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord; industrial relics were not demolished but seen as integral parts of the overall concept and imbued with new meanings and uses. Many more projects with a similar approach have since been executed and this book presents a selection of the most seminal such as Chemetoffs Île de Nantes Parc del Clot in Barcelona Hargreaves PROAPs Parque do Tejo e Tranca̋o in Lisbon and Michel Desvignes Parc aux Angéliques in Bordeaux. Beauty Redeemed offers a systematic framework for the consideration and use of post industrial sites. The author Professor of Landscape Design at Copenhagen University places these leftovers in their broad historical and aesthetic context proceeding from the 19th century Romantic fascination with ruins through present day industrial decline as exemplified by Detroit to a renaissance of the transformed landscape. Transformation understood as designing with the as found forms the basis of this design theory; it explores design work informed by a sensibility for redeemed beauty and various concepts of relating past present and future. Back cover