Broken cities : a historical sociology of ruins / Martin Devecka.
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Devecka, Martin, 1983- (författare)
- ISBN 9781421438412
- Publicerad: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
- Copyright: ©2020
- Engelska viii, 175 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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"--
Ämnesord
- Ruiner (sao)
- Arkitektur och samhälle (sao)
- Antiken (sao)
- Städer (sao)
- Social arkeologi (sao)
- Social archaeology -- Case studies. (LCSH)
- Cities and towns -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)
- Antiquities. (fast)
- Cities and towns. (fast)
- Social archaeology. (fast)
- Ruined buildings (LCSH)
- Architecture and society (LCSH)
- Cities and towns (LCSH)
- Social archaeology (LCSH)
- Grekland (sao)
- Mexiko (sao)
- Irak (sao)
- Grekland -- Athen (sao)
- Italien -- Rom (sao)
- Mexiko -- Mexico City (sao)
- Irak -- Bagdad (sao)
- Athens (Greece) -- Antiquities. (LCSH)
- Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities. (LCSH)
- Baghdad (Iraq) -- Antiquities. (LCSH)
- Mexico City (Mexico) -- Antiquities. (LCSH)
- Greece -- Athens. (fast)
- Iraq -- Baghdad. (fast)
- Italy -- Rome. (fast)
- Mexico -- Mexico City. (fast)
- Före 1500 (sao)
- To 1500 (fast)
Genre
- Fallstudier (saogf)
- Case studies. (fast)
- History. (fast)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Jaa Klassisk arkeologi
- Ict Stadsplanekonst
- Ic:oa Arkitektur: konstsociologi
Klassifikation
- CC72.4 (LCC)
- 938 (DDC)
- Jaa (kssb/8)
- Ict (kssb/8)
- Ic:oa (kssb/8)
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