Prologue: Ruins, and "ruin porn," in American cities
From blight to beauty: the controversial creation of the first US Industrial-Heritage Park
Detroit: new ruins and old problems
Resolving our judgments: Understanding how ruins acquire and exhibit aesthetic value
The ruin-industrial aesthetic: Ruins, and ruin-like environments, acquiring aesthetic value
Assessing function and the ruin category
Epilogue: Ruins rising from the ashes.
