Free Download Nick Yablon, "Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919"
English | 2009 | pages: 397 | ISBN: 0226946630, 0226946649 | PDF | 4,2 mb
American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of "urban blight" and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this highly original book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation-from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons-Untimely Ruins challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America.
