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Urban memory : history and amnesia in the modern city / edited by Mark Crinson
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Additional Creators
- Crinson, Mark
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Urban memory : an introduction / Mark Crinson -- Trauma and memory in the city : from Auster to Austerlitz / Graeme Gilloch and Jane Kilby -- Urban memory/suburban oblivion / Claire Pajaczkowska -- Clocking off in Ancoats : time and rememberance in the post-industrial city / Mark Crinson and Paul Tyrer -- Concrete and memory / Adrian Forty -- Totemic Park : symbolic representation in post-industrial space / Paul Tyrer and Mark Crinson -- Remembering, forgetting, and the industrial gallery space / Richard Williams -- The future of the past : archiving Singapore / John Phillips -- 9/11 / Neil Leach -- Mnemotechny of the industrial city : contemporary art and urban memory / Mark Crinson.
- Summary
- This multi-authored work considers the increasingly vital concept of urban memory, approaching the issue from different perspectives across art, culture, architecture and human consciousness, with studies on contemporary urban spaces worldwide.
- Subject(s)
- Sociology, Urban
- Cities and towns—History
- Architecture and history
- Historic preservation
- Memorialization
- Memory—Social aspects
- Sociologie urbaine
- Villes—Histoire
- Architecture et histoire
- Patrimoine historique
- Commémorations
- Mémoire—Aspect social
- Préservation historique
- Urban sociology
- Commemorations (events)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Sociology—Urban
- Cities and towns
- Stadtsoziologie
- Steden
- Bouwkunst
- Geschiedenis
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780203414613 (ebook)
0203414616 (ebook)
9786610217281
6610217289
0415334055
9780415334051
1280217286
9781280217289
0415334055 (Cloth)
0203414616 (Cloth)
0415334063 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780415334068 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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