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Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers by James Crawford
5.0
A very interesting book. The author covered the history of buildings I hadn't heard of (apparently others have). The rise and fail of these buildings is interesting - the attitudes to people toward the building, how those attitudes and needs change and the affect on the building. He also includes the deletion of Geocities. Many of the stories are of antiquities now ruined. The final story is the rise, fall, rising again and destruction of Palmyra. The Twin Towers are also included.
It took me awhile to read because I wished for entertainment in between reading about the glory of things that had fallen or been destroyed......
Chapters are the Tower of BAbel, Palace of King Minos, Citadel of Mycenae, Akhenaten, Temple of Jerusalem, the Forum, Library of Alexandria, Hippodrome of Constantinople, Madinat al-Zahra, old St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Karakorum in Mongolia, Fortress of Golconda, the Bastille, Vilcabamba in Peru, St Petersburg Panopticon in Russia and more. He tells the known history of each place and what it is like today. The history is fascinating and current reality is mostly rather sad. But what an amazing world is revealed.
It took me awhile to read because I wished for entertainment in between reading about the glory of things that had fallen or been destroyed......
Chapters are the Tower of BAbel, Palace of King Minos, Citadel of Mycenae, Akhenaten, Temple of Jerusalem, the Forum, Library of Alexandria, Hippodrome of Constantinople, Madinat al-Zahra, old St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Karakorum in Mongolia, Fortress of Golconda, the Bastille, Vilcabamba in Peru, St Petersburg Panopticon in Russia and more. He tells the known history of each place and what it is like today. The history is fascinating and current reality is mostly rather sad. But what an amazing world is revealed.