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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826578103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-31503-1

1-134-31504-X

1-280-21728-6

9786610217281

0-203-41461-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Classificazione

56.79

Altri autori (Persone)

CrinsonMark

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Cities and towns - History

Architecture and history

Historic preservation

Memorialization

Memory - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.