Urban memory and visual culture in Berlin : framing the asynchronous city 1957 2012 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 This book examines the crucial role of visual culture (architecture memorials photography and film) in shaping Berlins urban memory culture in both East and West in reponse to the changing political social and economic organization of the built environment over the past five decades