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Fallen glory : the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings / James Crawford.

by Crawford, James (Writer on aerial photography)

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Picador, 2017, c2015.

Lost architecture.

Ruined buildings.

Cities and towns -- History.

9781250118295 (hc)

1250118298 (hc)

566 p., 16 [p.] of plates : ill. (some color), map ; 25 cm.

Part one: Gods, heroes and monsters -- Make a name for yourself!: the Tower of Babel, Iraq -- Modernism's labyrinth: The palace of King Minos, Knossos, Greece -- The first war memorial: The citadel of Mycenae, the plain of Argos, Greece -- The Sun City also rises: Akhetaten, Amarna, Egypt -- Part two: On the unhappiness of empires -- The rise, decline and fall of the cow pasture: The forum, Rome -- The library of Babel: the library of Alexandria, Egypt -- Anarchy's theatre: the Hippodrome of Constantinople -- The carpet of the world: Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba, Spain -- Part three: The King is dead, long live the King -- London was, but is no more: Old St Paul's Cathedral, London -- Journey to the tent at the center of the world: Karakorum, Orkhon Valley, Mongolia -- The house of diamonds: the Fortress of Golconda, Hyderabad, India -- Libert©♭ for sale: the Bastille, Paris -- Virtual city: Vilcabamba, Espiritu Pampa, Peru -- Part four: You say utopia, I say dystopia -- Little brother's big brother house: the St Petersburg Panopticon, Okhta, Russia -- No-man's city: Kowloon Walled City, Kowloon, Hong Kong -- The day the architecture died: Pruitt-Igoe, St Louis, Missouri -- The mirrorwall: the Berlin Wall, Berlin, East and West Germany -- No day shall erase you from the memory of time: the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, New York City -- The deleted city: GeoCities, the World Wide Web -- Epilogue. Let the past meet the future: Palmyra, Tadmor, Syria.

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