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The City of Collective Memory
Author: M. Christine BoyerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262522113
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Describes the visual and mental models by which urban environment has been recognized, depicted and planned. This analysis draws from geography, critical theory, architecture, literature and painting to identify these maps of the city - as a work of art, as panorama and as spectacle.
Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin
Author: Simon WardPublisher:
ISBN: 9789089648532
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment. The book focuses on the visual culture of the city (architecture, memorials, photography and film). It argues that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in a contemporary 'overexposed' city, whose spatial and temporal boundaries have long since disintegrated.
Cities of Memory
Author: Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities
Author: Marouf A. Hasian Jr.Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030537714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York City’s securitized remembrances at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum; Charlottesville’s Confederate monument controversies in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally; and Montgomery’s “double consciousness” at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum. By tracing the genealogies that can be found across three contested cityscapes—New York, Charlottesville, and Montgomery—this book opens up new vistas for research for communication studies as it shows how cities are agentic actors that can wage “war” on urban landscapes as massive actor-networks struggling to remember (and forget). With the rise of sanctuary cities against nativistic immigration policies, “invasions” from white supremacists and neo-Nazis objecting to “the great replacement,” and rhizomic uprisings of Black Lives Matter protests in response to lethal police force against persons of color, this timely book speaks to the emergent realities of how cities have become battlegrounds in America’s continuing cultural wars.
Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East
Author: Ömür HarmanşahPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027942
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East, bringing together architecture and cultural history.
Cities in the Memory of the Homeless
Author: Hussein AbdelgalilPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this book titled “Cities in the Memory of the Homeless,” it was a real practice for years throughout the journey, discovering places, understanding the culture of others, and then writing about them and their manifestations. My story began in Sudan on a refugee journey through Cairo towards Australia, and from there I set off to different countries around the world. I chose this title to initially reflect the journey of refugees and their hardships during their arduous journeys. Hence, the title came as “Cities in the Memory of the Homeless.” Here, displacement does not mean living without a home but rather the journey of seeking refuge and leaving the homeland for foreign lands. In it, I narrated my adventures and delved into the geography of cities, their ancient civilizations, tourist attractions, and historical and cultural places. I wrote in a modern style different from the old stereotypical image used by travelers in ancient times. I addressed the stories of those who sail into the unknown on boats of death, warning against illegal migration. Within this book, there are numerous journeys that I documented over twenty years, where I discussed many events that happened to me.
Performing Memories
Author: Gabriele BiottiPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152756892X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
What is memory today? How can it be approached? Why does the contemporary world seem to be more and more haunted by different types of memories still asking for elaboration? Which artistic experiences have explored and defined memory in meaningful ways? How do technologies and the media have changed it? These are just some of the questions developed in this collection of essays analysing memory and memory shapes, which explores the different ways in which past time and its elaboration have been, and still are, elaborated, discussed, written or filmed, and contested, but also shared. By gathering together scholars from different fields of investigation, this book explores the cultural, social and artistic tensions in representing the past and the present, in understanding our legacies, and in approaching historical time and experience. Through the analysis of different representations of memory, and the investigation of literature, anthropology, myth and storytelling, a space of theories and discourses about the symbolic and cultural spaces of memory representation is developed.
Imagining Cities
Author: Sallie WestwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134761422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings together some of the most recent and exciting work on the city from within sociology and cultural studies. The book is organised around the following major themes: the theoretical imagination; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the complex and complimentary narrative of the city ways.While these representations bring the past and the present together, the final section of the book elaborates the present and future in relation to the idea of the virtual city. Hence, the world of cyberspace not only recasts our imaginaries of space and communication, but has a profound effect on the sociological imagination itself.
Cities and Memory
Author: Barbara HenningPublisher:
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Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity
Author: Joanne Punzo WaghornePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811003858
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book discusses Asia’s rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity. The essays in this volume – covering topics from the global metropolises of Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul, Beijing, and Hong Kong to the regional centers of Gwalior, Pune, Jahazpur, and sites like Wudang Mountain – examine in detail the spaces created by new or changing religious organizations that range in scope from neighborhood-based to consciously global. The definition of “spatial aspects” includes direct place-making projects such as the construction of new religious buildings – temples, halls and other meeting sites, as well as less tangible religious endeavors such as the production of new “mental spaces” urged by spiritual leaders, or the shift from terra firma to the strangely concrete effervesce of cyberspace. With this in mind, it explores how distinct and blurred, and open and bounded communities generate and participate in diverse practices as they deliberately engage or disengage with physical landscapes/cityscapes. It highlights how through these religious organizations, changing class and gender configurations, ongoing political and economic transformations, continue as significant factors shaping and affecting Asian urban lives. In addition, the books goes further by exploring new and often bittersweet “improvements” like metro rail lines, new national highways, widespread internet access, that bulldoze – both literally and figuratively – religious places and force relocations and adjustments that are often innovative and unexpected. Furthermore, this volume explores personal experiences within the particularities of selected religious organizations and the ways that subjects interpret or actively construct urban spaces. The essays show, through ethnographically and historically grounded case studies, the variety of ways newly emerging religious communities or religious institutions understand, value, interact with, or strive to ignore extreme urbanization and rapidly changing built environments.
