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States of Decay: Urbex New York & Americas Forgotten North East by Daniel Barter, Daniel Marbaix is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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If America is the Roman Empire of our time then New York City is Rome. The pulsating heart of the West pumps greenbacks through the veins of Manhattan, the richest place in the world. Power emanates from it's corporate brains and financial muscle across the whole surface of the globe. So how is it that even in the body of America, land of eternal youth, there is failure, death and decay hidden just beneath its glossy surfaces? A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From NYC to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America's heavy industry, States of Decay brings you a glimpse of the broken, the doomed, the entropic dreamlands on the flipside of the silver dollar coin. A unique exploration of everything from abandoned power plants, hospitals, asylums, schools, theatres, steel mills, prisons, factories, hotels, cathedrals, blast furnaces, convents to a boat graveyard. This extended photo-essay functions as a visual poem allowing the reader to draw their own experiences and conclusions from the images themselves. No interpretation necessary. This book will ask disturbing questions and inspire unexpected answers from any
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Daniel Barter, Daniel Marbaix
- Publisher
- Pro-Actif Communications; Carpet Bombing Culture
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781908211125
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Photography, Fiction, Arts
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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