LEADER 04232cam 2200601 i 4500001 ocn957656398 003 OCoLC 005 20170428044626.3 008 160831s2017 nyua 000 0 eng 010 2016039186 019 945745529 020 9781250118295 (hardback) 020 1250118298 (hardback) 035 (Sirsi) 40027102219 035 40027102219 035 (OCoLC)957656398 |z(OCoLC)945745529 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dVTL |dTXWBR |dIJ5 |dYDX |dFM0 |dJQM |dGZM |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 050 00 NA209 |b.C73 2017 082 00 720 |223 084 ARC024000ARC005000HIS037000HIS000000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Crawford, James |c(Writer on aerial photography), |eauthor. |=^A1334045 245 10 Fallen glory : |bthe lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings / |cJames Crawford. 250 First U.S. edition. 264 1 New York : |bPicador, |c2017. 300 566 pages : |billustrations ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 |gPart one: |tGods, heroes and monsters -- |tMake a name for yourself!: the Tower of Babel, Iraq -- |tModernism's labyrinth: The palace of King Minos, Knossos, Greece -- |gThe |tfirst war memorial: The citadel of Mycenae, the plain of Argos, Greece -- |gThe |tSun City also rises: Akhetaten, Amarna, Egypt -- |tJerusalem syndrome: the Temple of Jerusalem -- |gPart two: |tOn the unhappiness of empires -- |gThe |trise, decline and fall of the cow pasture: The forum, Rome -- |gThe |tlibrary of Babel: the library of Alexandria, Egypt -- |tAnarchy's theatre: the Hippodrome of Constantinople -- |gThe |tcarpet of the world: Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba, Spain -- |tPart three: The |tKing is dead, long live the King -- |tLondon was, but is no more: Old St Paul's Cathedral, London -- |tJourney to the tent at the centre of the world: Karakorum, Orkhon Valley, Mongolia -- |gThe |thouse of diamonds: the Fortress of Golconda, Hyderabad, India -- |tLiberté for sale: the Bastille, Paris -- |tVirtual city: Vilcabamba, Espiritu Pampa, Peru -- |gPart four: |tYou say utopia, I say dystopia -- |tLittle brother's big brother house: the St Petersburg Panopticon, Okhta, Russia -- |tNo-man's city: Kowloon Walled City, Kowloon, Hong Kong -- |gThe |tday the architecture died: Pruitt-Igoe, St Louis, Missouri -- |gThe |tmirrorwall: the Berlin Wall, Berlin, East and West Germany -- |tNo day shall erase you from the memory of time: the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, New York City -- |gThe |tdeleted city: GeoCities, the World Wide Web -- |gEpilogue. |tLet the past meet the future: Palmyra, Tadmor, Syria. 520 Uncovering the biographies of some of the most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, an engaging compendium of 21 structures from around the globe, including The Tower of Babel, The Bastille, the Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture. 650 0 Lost architecture. |=^A850792 650 0 Ruined buildings. |=^A1146405 650 0 Cities and towns |xHistory. |=^A23077 650 7 ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / General. |2bisacsh 650 7 ARCHITECTURE / History / General. |2bisacsh 650 7 HISTORY / World. |2bisacsh 650 7 HISTORY / General. |2bisacsh 650 4 Cities and towns. 650 4 Cities and towns |xHistory. 650 7 Cities and towns. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00861748 650 7 Lost architecture. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01002644 650 7 Ruined buildings. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01101204 655 4 History. 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iOnline version:Crawford, James (Writer on aerial photography), author. |tFallen glory |bFirst U.S. edition. |dNew York : Picador, 2017 |z9781250118301 |w(DLC) 2016040493 949 |i30372016639814 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s35.00 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 4696291