1st Edition
Urban Memory History and Amnesia in the Modern City
Edited By Mark Crinson
Copyright 2005
252 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Nine previously unpublished essays form an interdisciplinary assessment of urban memory in the modern city, analysing this burgeoning area of interest from the perspectives of sociology,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... Read more
List of illustrations, Illustration credits, Notes on contributors, Urban memory – an introduction, Acknowledgements, 1. Trauma and memory in the city: from Auster to Austerlitz, 2. Urban memory/suburban oblivion, 3. Clocking off in Ancoats: time and remembrance in the post-industrial city, 4. Concrete and memory, 5. Totemic Park: symbolic representation in post-industrial space, 6. Remembering, forgetting, and the industrial gallery space, 7. The future of the past: archiving Singapore, 8. 9/11, 9. Mnemotechny of the industrial city: contemporary art and urban memory, Index
Biography
Mark Crinson
