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The hashtag #abandoned has more than 7.2 million cosmic tragedy of a nature that could resume the
of posts, while #ruins and #abandonedplaces they windward turns the ruins of the present time into a
collect 3 and 3.7 million of posts. source of inspiration”. Inspiration for interior design
A study conducted on internal newspapers dedi- which becomes “rustrial”, a synthesis of the indu-
cated to lifestyle, highlights the amazing charm of strial and rustic style; for urban redevelopment as
inaccessible beauty, the seduction of abandoned in the case of the New Yorker High Line, an eleva-
places if not literally in ruins. The beauty of the ugly, ted railway in disused since the 80s, it then became
ultimately: “Ruins always have had a charm becau- a linear park. In the kitchen, the Chefs reaffirm the
se they allude to the transience of the human being, simplicity of traditional dishes; while from fashion to
to the inexorable passage of time, to the caducity contemporary art designers use the wastes to pro-
of things - explains Sonia Paone, professor of ur- duce clothes and artworks, suggesting how nothing
ban sociology at the University of Pisa - Today the is created, nothing is destro.

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