New Ruins: The Story of the World in Twenty-One Abandoned and Collapsing Places

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.

This 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 th...