Memory culture and the contemporary city building sites /
Memory Culture and the Contemporary City makes a series of new interventions in the topical and contested field of urban memory. It features accessible and illuminating essays by leading figures from a range of academic disciplines (history, cultural geography, architecture, film studies, and cultur...
| Other Authors: | Staiger, Uta, 1976-, Steiner, Henriette, 1980-, Webber, Andrew., Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke, UK ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
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| Summary: |
Memory Culture and the Contemporary City makes a series of new interventions in the topical and contested field of urban memory. It features accessible and illuminating essays by leading figures from a range of academic disciplines (history, cultural geography, architecture, film studies, and cultural theory) as well as practitioners in architecture and the visual and performance arts. The book considers how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities, their architectures, memorials, museums, and artworks. It takes Berlin as a particularly telling case of a 'building-site' city dealing with historical burdens and divisions, but also extends to other cities marked by the fraught legacy of conflict and violence: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Dresden, and New York. Through bold critical readings of their sites and constructions of memory, these cities are shown to both display and conceal remembrance in their cultural building work. |
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Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 12, 2010). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions. Memory Culture and the Contemporary City makes a series of new interventions in the topical and contested field of urban memory. It features accessible and illuminating essays by leading figures from a range of academic disciplines (history, cultural geography, architecture, film studies, and cultural theory) as well as practitioners in architecture and the visual and performance arts. The book considers how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities, their architectures, memorials, museums, and artworks. It takes Berlin as a particularly telling case of a 'building-site' city dealing with historical burdens and divisions, but also extends to other cities marked by the fraught legacy of conflict and violence: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Dresden, and New York. Through bold critical readings of their sites and constructions of memory, these cities are shown to both display and conceal remembrance in their cultural building work. Monument and Melancholia / V.Burgin -- Sonnen-Insulaner: On a Berlin Island of Memory / T.Elsaesser -- Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin / H.Reeh -- Global Building Sites : Between Past and Future / D.Libeskind -- Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin / K.E.Till & J.Jonker -- Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's 'City of David' / W.Pullan & M.Gwiazda -- Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past / M.Fulbrook -- Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War / J.Ward -- Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground / C.Scribner -- Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage / S.Bürkle -- Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films / G.Kantaris -- Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tilmans / P.Ekardt -- On the Road with mnemonic nonstop / L.Ruprecht with M.Nachbar & J.Roller. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Physical Description: |
xiv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780230246959 0230246958 |