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Urban memory : history and amnesia in the modern city / edited by Mark Crinson.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: HT119 .U694 2005

Overview

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.
Format: Book
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005
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.
Other Authors/Editors: Crinson, Mark.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Table of contents
Publisher description
ISBN: 0415334055
9780415334051
0415334063
9780415334068
0203414616
9780203414613
Physical Description: xxiii, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Sociology, Urban. Cities and towns--History. Architecture and history. Historic preservation. Memorialization. Memory--Social aspects.

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