Creative Destruction Store - The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Despite the heading of the book, this isn't some doomsday advocate (or warning) manual, or even a representation of an 'end of the world fetish (ok...maybe a little)'. It is however a book that looks at the popular culture idea or the epicenter of destruction; that being New York City. Whether that destruction be from tidal waves, nuclear bombs, biological attack, aliens attacking, virus/plagues and even zombies. "The City's End" is a pop culture analysis of NYC and it's destruction.

from The NEW YORKER review (exhert)

"Max Page, a professor of architecture and history, charts the evolution of popular fears in films, drawings, literature, video games, and amusement-park rides. His argument that “each era has found it useful to destroy New York in its own particular way” draws on theorists like Spengler and Sontag, but they are less illuminating than the gleeful illustrations, which attest to the notion that “no place looks better destroyed than New York.”