{"product_id":"new-ruins-alastair-bonnett-9781805703228","title":"New Ruins","description":"Discover how modern life is defined by constant creation, abandonment, and collapse, and why ruins are no longer relics of the past but a defining feature of the present.\n \nThis is the age of ruins. The wreckage of our speeding, super-sized era can be found on the Moon, at the bottom of the sea, in the internet’s haunted attics, in desecrated jungles, and in abandoned shopping malls. We live amid the accumulating debris of an economy that never stops producing, creating mountains of things that rarely last. \nUnlike the reassuring relics of the past, today’s ruins are unsettled and unstable. They are not fixed in time, but shifting, uncertain and often reversible: virtual worlds can be rebooted, retail parks revived, ecosystems rebuilt. \nAcross 21 case studies, New Ruins explores: \nAbandoned technologies, space junk, and obsolete digital worlds. \nDead malls and empty retail parks. \nGhost cities, shrinking towns, and unfinished megaprojects. \nPolluted rivers, collapsing coral reefs, and damaged ecosystems. \nExtracted landscapes, from deforested jungles to mined environments. \nThe strange “zombie” afterlives of places that are ruined yet still active. \nTogether, these places reveal a world where obsolescence and ruination are built into modern life. \nStep into the unsettling reality of New Ruins and discover why you will never see the world—or its ruins—in the same way again.","brand":"Quarto Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67707261911328,"sku":"9781805703228","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781805703228_3104415.jpg?v=1791510418","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/new-ruins-alastair-bonnett-9781805703228","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}