- Summary
- "These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York"--Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin
- Contents
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Introduction
PART I
Monument and Melancholia / V.Burgin
Sonnen-Insulaner: On a Berlin Island of Memory / T.Elsaesser
Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin / H. Reeh
Global Building Sites : Between Past and Future / D.Libeskind
PART II
Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin / K.E.Till and J.Jonker
Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's City of David / W. Pullan and M.Gwiazda
Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past / M. Fulbrook
Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War / J. Ward
Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground / C. Scribner
PART III
Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage / Stefanie Bürkle
Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films / G.Kantaris
Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tillmans / P.Ekardt
On the Road with mnemonic nonstop / L.Ruprecht, M.Nachbar & J.Roller.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Staiger, Uta, 1976-
Steiner, Henriette, 1980-
Webber, Andrew.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- PART I -- Monument and Melancholia / V.Burgin -- Sonnen-Insulaner: On a Berlin Island of Memory / T.Elsaesser -- Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin / H. Reeh --Global Building Sites : Between Past and Future / D.Libeskind -- PART II -- Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin / K.E.Till and J.Jonker -- Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's City of David / W. Pullan and M.Gwiazda -- Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past / M. Fulbrook -- Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War / J. Ward -- Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground / C. Scribner -- PART III -- Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage / Stefanie Bürkle -- Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films / G.Kantaris -- Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tillmans / P.Ekardt -- On the Road with mnemonic nonstop / L.Ruprecht, M.Nachbar & J.Roller.
