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Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants and consumed in fire. 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

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Author

Paul Dobraszczyk

Publisher

I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784537166

Category

social science

Subjects

Political Science, Architecture, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-25