Broken Cities: A Historical Sociology of Ruins /

"Broken Cities is a comparative sociological study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. Weaving together four case studies of classical Athens, late antique Rome, medieval Baghdad, and sixteenth-century Mexico City, Deve...

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1. Verfasser: Devecka, Martin, 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Zusammenfassung:"Broken Cities is a comparative sociological study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. Weaving together four case studies of classical Athens, late antique Rome, medieval Baghdad, and sixteenth-century Mexico City, Devecka shows that ruination is a complex social process largely contingent on changing imperial control rather than the result of immediate (natural) catastrophic events, as popular opinion might assume"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (pages cm)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1421438437
9781421438436

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