{"product_id":"untimely-ruins-9780226946641","title":"Untimely Ruins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican urban ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in debates about home foreclosures, images of 9\/11, or postapocalyptic movies. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation, this title argues that this association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation's history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Untimely Ruins is a magisterial work of scholarship, brimming with intelligence, insight, and interest on every page. Nick Yablon's scholarship is prodigious. His extended meditation on the meanings of American ruins explains why they are distinctive, what they reveal, and how they matter. This is a book of exceptional historical expanse and interpretive ambition that is at the same time remarkably lucid from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, and page to page.\" - Carl Smith, author of The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400153932119,"sku":"9780226946641","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226946641.jpg?v=1730469898","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/untimely-ruins-9780226946641","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}