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336 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1999
...the phenomena that defined and constituted the material of Prague: her buildings...Without her old buildings -- fragile and vulnerable collectors' items of incomparable worth -- Prague would not be Prague, whereas the buildings erected in the last hundred years or so are no more than mass-produced consumer objects, indistinguishable from those you can see in any industrial town (60-61)
I began seeking out any surviving traces of the city's stone inhabitants, long since cannibalized for building material. Only the names remained... (65)