ABSTRACT
Many industrialised countries experienced remarkable economic growth from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, with heavy industrialisation and rapid urbanisation. Now the industrial age is drawing to a close, a very considerable quantity of industrial heritage remains. Economic decline has occurred in many industries, creating factory ruins and abandoned mines, and similar phenomena can be found all over the world. Picturesque ruin landscapes fall into different categories. The first type produce a diversity of landscape composition, working as eye-catchers. In this sense, the superficial landscape property of the ruin is applied rather than its metaphorical meaning. In general, scales, colours or textures of man-made facilities are quite different from ones of nature. Industrial facilities are generally formed through the process of material efficiency, of construction, economy, or of management, which are all without aesthetic intent: the taste of industrial architecture is paradoxically discovered as elements without aesthetic intent'.
