Broken Cities A Historical Sociology of Ruins /
Devecka, Martin, 1983-
Broken Cities A Historical Sociology of Ruins / Martin Devecka. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2020. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Athens: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Ruins in Classical Greece -- Rome: Ruins and Empire in the Late Antique World -- Baghdad: Postclassical Ruins and the Islamic Cityscape -- Tenochtitlan: Preservationism and Its Failures in Early Modern Mexico.
"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"--
9781421438436
Cities and towns--History--To 1500.
Social archaeology--Case studies.
Electronic Books.
CC72 / .B765 2020
Broken Cities A Historical Sociology of Ruins / Martin Devecka. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2020. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Athens: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Ruins in Classical Greece -- Rome: Ruins and Empire in the Late Antique World -- Baghdad: Postclassical Ruins and the Islamic Cityscape -- Tenochtitlan: Preservationism and Its Failures in Early Modern Mexico.
"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"--
9781421438436
Cities and towns--History--To 1500.
Social archaeology--Case studies.
Electronic Books.
CC72 / .B765 2020