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. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -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 b Between Past and Future; D.Libeskind - PART II - Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin; K.E.Till ; J.Jonker - Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's 'City of David'; W.Pullan ; 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; S.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 Tilmans; P.Ekardt - On the Road with mnemonic nonstop ; L.Ruprecht with M.Nachbar ; J.Roller - Notes - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57665-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 29/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés