Memory Culture and the Contemporary City [electronic resource] : Building Sites /
Staiger, Uta.author.
Steiner, Henriette.author.
Webber, Andrew.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Cultural studies.
Intellectual life—History.
Buildings.
Fine arts.
Motion pictures and television.
Urban planning.
City planning.
Cultural Studies.
Intellectual Studies.
Building Types and Functions.
Fine Arts.
Screen Studies.
Urbanism.