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  title info:
    title: Broken cities
    sub title: a historical sociology of ruins
  name:
    name part: Devecka, Martin
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Martin Devecka.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    topic: Social archaeology
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    geographic: Athens (Greece)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Rome (Italy)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Baghdad (Iraq)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico City (Mexico)
    topic: Antiquities
  classification: CC72.4 .D39 2020
  classification: 938
  identifier: 9781421438412
  identifier: 1421438410
  identifier: 9781421438429
  identifier: 1421438429
  identifier: 9781421438436
  identifier: 2019056148
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200207
    record change date: 20210125085706.0
    record identifier: in00004272755