Abstract
A phenomenological consideration of the social activities and cultural setting of the motorway service station after dark. 'Ghosts are surprising bedfellows of the service roads and hard shoulders of our six-lane network. These arterial routes leave clues to villages buried, desire lines severed and wild places defiled. They echo to the chants and broken glasses of football coaches, road racers and un-belted joy riders, or the sighs of furtive love making in cramped Ford Escorts parked on 'dead roads‘. Echoes, after-images or 'ghosts‘ resonate: the soft underbelly of a world so close. The contributors identify and celebrate these differing ghosts.'
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | In the company of ghosts |
| Subtitle of host publication | the poetics of the motorway |
| Editors | Alan Corkish |
| Place of Publication | Liverpool, U.K. |
| Publisher | erbacce press |
| Pages | 81-99 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781907878428 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Impact: This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between architects, artists and poets, published and performed.Keywords
- Architecture and the built environment