Deindustrial ruin produces nostalgia for places not yet fallen

Evidence

Coming to London, I couldn’t help but wonder if it might also fall into dissolution. Then I saw a picture a friend had. It was a realistic painting of what appeared to be a view over a jungle from a high place. Gradually you came to realise that it was a view of an overgrown city from a tower, then you realised that this panorama was from a ruined Centre Point and you could see Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Street, Charing Cross road in the undergrowth. It felt like a revelation. It manifested so perfectly this vision I’d had of everything becoming overgrown, an overgrown London. A vision of longing and nostalgia tinged with fear. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 396

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which painting is this - an artist name would make this researchable; it reads like a real work by a named painter Fisher could have identified.
• ADDENDUM: The overgrown-city image directly extends the trees-as-infrastructure essay’s theme of nature reclaiming built structures.
• XREF: connects to: Heimat nostalgia was not inherently antimodern but could center on industrial-urban culture — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 147; Positive invocations of the past are not always mere nostalgia — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1070; Lost futures haunt a city more keenly than its past does — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 212 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Lost futures haunt a city more keenly than its past does #corroborates (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 212
• Positive invocations of the past are not always mere nostalgia #corroborates (0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1070