| Contents |
Part one: Gods, heroes and monsters -- Make a name for yourself!: the Tower of Babel, Iraq -- Modernism's labyrinth: The palace of King Minos, Knossos, Greece -- The first war memorial: The citadel of Mycenae, the plain of Argos, Greece -- The Sun City also rises: Akhetaten, Amarna, Egypt -- Jerusalem syndrome: the Temple of Jerusalem -- Part two: On the unhappiness of empires -- The rise, decline and fall of the cow pasture: The forum, Rome -- The library of Babel: the library of Alexandria, Egypt -- Anarchy's theatre: the Hippodrome of Constantinople -- The carpet of the world: Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba, Spain -- Part three: The King is dead, long live the King -- London was, but is no more: Old St Paul's Cathedral, London -- Journey to the tent at the centre of the world: Karakorum, Orkhon Valley, Mongolia -- The house of diamonds: the Fortress of Golconda, Hyderabad, India -- Liberté for sale: the Bastille, Paris -- Virtual city: Vilcabamba, Espiritu Pampa, Peru -- Part four: You say utopia, I say dystopia -- Little brother's big brother house: the St Petersburg Panopticon, Okhta, Russia -- No-man's city: Kowloon Walled City, Kowloon, Hong Kong -- The day the architecture died: Pruitt-Igoe, St Louis, Missouri -- The mirrorwall: the Berlin Wall, Berlin, East and West Germany -- No day shall erase you from the memory of time: the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, New York City -- The deleted city: GeoCities, the World Wide Web -- Epilogue. Let the past meet the future: Palmyra, Tadmor, Syria. |
| Abstract |
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. |
