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.
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