City of Collective Memory Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments

Name: City of Collective Memory Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments
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ISBN: 9780262023719

ISBN-10: 0262023717

ISBN-13: 9780262023719

Edition: 1994

Authors: M. Christine Boyer

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Christine Boyer faces head-on the crisis of the city in the late twentieth century, taking us on a fascinating journey through theaters and museums, panoramas and maps, buildings and institutions that are used to construct a new reading of the city as a system of representation, a complex cultural entity. Boyer brings together elements and concepts from geography, critical theory, architecture, literature, and painting in a synthetic and readable work that is broad in its reach and original in its insights. What finally emerges is a sense of the city reinvigorated with richness and potential. The City of Collective Memorydescribes a series of different visual and mental models by which the…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/2/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 572
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Place of History and Memory in the Contemporary City



City Images and Representational Forms



Historical Precedents for the City of Collective Memory



The City and the Theater



The Art of Collective Memory



Topographical Travelogues and City Views



Invented Traditions and Cityscapes



Contemporary Forms of the City of Collective Memory



The Instruments of Memory



Manhattan Montage


Epilogue



The City as Radical Artifice


Notes


Index