The City Of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery And Architectural Entertainments
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ISBN : 9780262522113
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The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments
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 Memory describes a series of different visual and mental models by which the urban environment has been recognized, depicted, and planned. Boyer identifies three major "maps": one common to the traditional city?the city as a work of art; one characteristic of the modern city?the city as panorama; and one appropriate to the contemporary city?the city as spectacle. It is a richly illustrated and documented study that pays considerable attention to the normally hidden and unspoken codes that regulate the order imposed on and derived from the city. A wide range of secondary historical literature and theoretical work is considered, with evident debts to structuralist analysis of urban form represented by Aldo Rossi, as well to much post-structuralist criticism from Walter Benjamin to the present.
Specification of The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments
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Author | M. Christine Boyer |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | 1st tr pbk |
ISBN-10 | 026252211 |
ISBN-13 | 9780262522113 |
Publisher | The MIT Press |
Publication Year | 1996 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 6.8 inch. |
Length | 1.3 inch. |
Width | 8.7 inch. |
Weight | 1.65 pounds. |
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