Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. Athens: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Ruins in Classical
Greece
Chapter 2. Rome: Ruins and Empire in the Late Antique World
Chapter 3. Baghdad: Postclassical Ruins and the Islamic
Cityscape
Chapter 4. Tenochtitlan: Preservationism and Its Failures in Early
Modern Mexico
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A comparative study of cities that fell into ruin through human involvement.
Martin Devecka is an assistant professor of classical studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The prose is very elegant and lucid, well suited for upper-level
undergraduate classes pertinent to matters of pre modern urbanism
and thus worth assigning.
—Nathanel Andrade, Binghamton University (SUNY), The Classical
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