The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay

by Paul Dobraszczyk

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784537160
• ISBN13: 9781784537166
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"