1st Edition
Imaginary Athens Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul
By Jin-Sung Chun
Copyright 2021
402 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
402 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
402 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book comprehensively examines architecture, urban planning, and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled, transnational process that involves an imaginative geography based on embellished memories of classical Athens. Schinkel’s classicist architecture in Berlin, especially the principle of tectonics at its core, came to be adopted... Read more
Prologue: The Phantasm(agoria) of Modernity
1. In Search of Prussian Classicism
2. Beyond the Prussia of Asia
3. An Eerie Phantasmagoria of Athena
Epilogue: Sites of Memory, Spaces of Hope
Biography
Jin-Sung Chun is a professor of history at Busan National University of Education.
