Memory culture and the contemporary city : building sites /
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Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. |
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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 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. Urban Memoirs
- 1. Monument and Melancholia
- 2. Sonnen-Insulaner: On a Berlin Island of Memory
- 3. Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin
- 4. Global Building Sites - Between Past and Future
- Part II. Conflict Zones
- 5. Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin
- 6. Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's 'City of David'
- 7. Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past
- 8. Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War
- 9. Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground
- Part III. Art Works
- 10. Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage
- 11. Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films
- 12. Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tillmans
- 13. On the Road with mnemonic nonstop
- Index