Memory culture and the contemporary city : building sites /

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Imprint:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Description:xiv, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7913763
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Other authors / contributors:Staiger, Uta, 1976-
Steiner, Henriette, 1980-
Webber, Andrew, 1959-
ISBN:9780230576650 (hardback)
0230576656 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York"--Provided by publisher.

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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: Introduction PART I 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 PART II Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin--K.E.Till and J.Jonker Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's City of David--W. Pullan and 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 PART III Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage--Stefanie 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. 
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