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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Devecka, Martin, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Cities and towns  |x History  |y To 1500. 
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651 0 |a Rome (Italy)  |x Antiquities. 
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