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Americans Don’t Know What Urban Collapse Really Looks Like Annalee Newitz © Olivier Coulange / Agence VU / Redux If you’ve ever seen a picture of a lost city maybe in the pages of National Geographic or in the first Tomb Raider movie you were probably looking at the crumbling temples and immense, empty canals of Angkor, the former capital of the Khmer empire in present-day Cambodia. Thick tree roots have wrapped themselves around massive blocks of stone in its legendary palaces. Flowers grow from cracks in hundreds of ornate towers carved with the Buddha’s serene face. A thousand years ago, Angkor was among the world’s largest cities, with nearly 1 million residents. Today its iconic ruins are as famous as the city itself once was, attracting millions of tourists to Cambodia every year.

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