Buried City

Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present. We build on what has been built before, whether over foundations formalising previous permanency or over the temporal occupations of ground. But what happens when you shift a city - when you dislodge its occupation of ground towards a new ground, bury it and forget it? Focusing on Berlin’s destruction during World War II and its reconstruction after the end of the war, this book offers a rethinking of how the practices of destruction and burial combine to reform the city through geography and how burying a city is intricately tied to forgetting destruction, ruination and trauma. Created from 25 million cubic meters of rubble produced during World War II, Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain) is the exemplar of the destroyed city. Its critical journey is chronicled in combination with Berlin’s seven other rubble hills, and their connections to constructing forgetting through burial. Furthermore, the book investigates Berlin’s sublime relation to Albert Speer’s urban vision to rival the ancient cities of Rome and Athens through their now shared geographies of seven hills. Finally, there is a central focus on the role of the citizens who cleared Berlin’s streets of rubble, and the subsequent human relationships between people and ruins. This book is valuable reading for those interested in Architectural Theory, Urban Geography, Modern History and Urban Design.

The book recreates the lost world of Pompeii and -- based on archaeological detective work -- discribes how Eros the steward might have lived and how he came to die in his master's house.

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Reproduction of the original: Buried Cities by Jennie Hall

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THE CHARLIE DUMONT GLUTCH TRIOLOGY IS ABOUT A TEEN GENIUS WHO INVENTS THINGS. IN THE GLUTCH AND TRIPLE STUFF HE HAS INVENTED A SUPER FUEL AND FLIES A JUNK HELICOPTER (THE GLUTCH) AROUND THE WORLD WITH EX-NAVY PILOT, MARVIN SMITH, IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE SALE OF HIS INVENTION. IN THE EDUCATION OF CARLOS CHARLIE FLIES HIS ULTRA LIGHT PLANE SOLO FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE TO TEXAS TO FINISH HIGH SCHOOL, AND PHYSICAL TRAINING IN A CRASH COURSE WHILE DEALING WITH A DRUG DEALING SCHOOL PRINCIPAL WHO WHATS TO KILL HIM. AS A SIDELINE HE DISCOVERS A WAY TO TURN A COMMON WEED INTO A NEW INDUSTRY. IN LOST CITY CHARLIE GOES WITH MARVIN AND THEIR MECHANIC, CHIEF COALSON, TO THE GREEN HELL OF BRAZIL'S MATO GROSSO JUNGLE SEARCHING FOR THE LEGENDARY LOST CITY. CHARLIE FINDS HIMSELF TRAPPED IN A VAST HOLE IN THE GROUND, HE GOES NATIVE WITH A LOCAL TRIBE. HE FINDS SPECIAL FRIENDS IN A NATIVE GIRL AND THE TRIBAL WITCH DOCTOR.