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Mandy King mandy_king — This book is less a history of demolition and more a batch of profiles of important and strange people in the demolition or development field. The characters are vivid - the Volks tearing down early 20th century New York, Haussmann plowing through Second Empire Paris, and perhaps the most interesting, the Loizeaux family, a much mythologized demoltion family. But Byles is way too determined to make these people seem like artistes, 'demolitionists' as he has it, and he misses the real point in all these stories. These men are far less important than those funding the demolitions or determining the paths of destruction. But I guess Robert Moses and Louis-Napoleon have had their biographies. And what of the things demolished? It's not until nearly half way through the book that Byles attempts to show the great losses (in architecture anyway) that progress can bring, and his over wrought and over excited prose ruins nearly everything he touches. In the hands of a subtler writer these stories could've been haunting, but they come off like comic book synopses and Nickelodeon histories. Byles is at his best when describing the destruction of the original Pennsylvania Station in New York, or the Devil's Nights of Detroit (which I thought were a fictional creation of Glen Hirshberg) the night before Halloween when, in the 70s and 80s Detroit's urban populace set upon the city's many abandoned buildings with torches and sledgehammers - and white suburbanites came to view the spectacle. There's a lot of sociology here that Byles, in his attempt at levity and, one would assume, book sales, skims over in favor of boring and winding platitudes. Rubble contains a chapter on Vegas demolition and some of the people and ideology behind America's demo craze is made clear through hyperbole. Vegas is more a caricature of America, than part of America, after all. Byles's section on September 11 is thoughtful. The most powerful image in the book is not Byles's, however. It is Walter Benjamin's angel of history, who soars backward into the future. "Where a chain of events appears before us, he sees one single catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it at his feet." This from Benjamin's On the Concept of History.

Ovidiu Subtire ovidiu_subtire — This is an amazing book for one of the most intriguing times in American History. If you enjoy photography, in particular glimpses inside the human psyche- this books is a wonderful starter point. Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and others who bring faces to a poignant time in American History.

Damian Miranda damianmiranda — You kow, I've read books involving vampires, werewolves, faeries, witches, and angels, but never anything about unicorns. I loved it just as much as the others!

Raquel Nelson raquelnelson — Epic series!

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