Urban Memory
eBook - ePub

Urban Memory

History and Amnesia in the Modern City

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Urban Memory

History and Amnesia in the Modern City

About this book

Nine previously unpublished essays form an interdisciplinary assessment of urban memory in the modern city, analysing this burgeoning area of interest from the perspectives of sociology, architectural and art history, psychoanalysis, culture and critical theory. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, images, maps and specially commissioned artwork, this work applies a critical and creative approach to existing theories of urban memory, and examines how these ideas are actualised in the forms of the built environment in the modernist and post-industrial city.

A particular area of focus is post-industrial Manchester, but the book also includes studies of current-day Singapore, New York after 9/11, modern museums in industrial gallery spaces, the writings of Paul Auster and W.G. Sebald, memorials built in concrete, and contemporary art.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780415334051
eBook ISBN
9781134315031
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Urban memory
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Illustration credits
  7. Contributors
  8. Urban memory – an introduction
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Notes
  11. Chapter 1: Trauma and memory in the city: From Auster to Austerlitz
  12. Chapter 2: Urban memory / suburban oblivion
  13. Chapter 3: Clocking off in Ancoats: Time and remembrance in the post-industrial city
  14. Chapter 4: Concrete and memory
  15. Chapter 5: Totemic Park: Symbolic representation in post-industrial space
  16. Chapter 6: Remembering, forgetting and the industrial gallery space
  17. Chapter 7: The future of the past: Archiving Singapore
  18. Chapter 8: 9/11
  19. Chapter 9: Mnemotechny of the industrial city: Contemporary art and urban memory