Memory culture and the contemporary city
By: edited by Uta Staiger, Henriette Steiner, and Andrew Webber.
Contributors: Staiger, Uta, 1976-; Steiner, Henriette, 1980-; Webber, Andrew, 1959-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780230576650
Subjects: Memorials -- Germany -- Berlin -- Case studies; Cities and towns -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction PART I Monument and Melancholia; title: V.Burgin Sonnen-Insulaner: On a Berlin Island of Memory; title: T.Elsaesser Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin; title: H. Reeh Global Building Sites Between Past and Future; title: D.Libeskind PART II Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin; title: K.E.Till and J.Jonker Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's City of David; title: W. Pullan and M.Gwiazda Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past; M. Fulbrook Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War; title: J. Ward Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground; title: C. Scribner PART III Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage; title: Stefanie Bürkle  Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films; title: G.Kantaris Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tilmans; title: P.Ekardt On the Road with mnemonic nonstop; title: L.Ruprecht with M.Nachbar & J.Roller.