Memory Culture and the Contemporary City: Building Sites

Author:   Uta Staiger ,  Henriette Steiner ,  Andrew Webber
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9780230576650


Pages:   238
Publication Date:   29 October 2009
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Uta Staiger ,  Henriette Steiner ,  Andrew Webber
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.529kg
ISBN:  

9780230576650


ISBN 10:   0230576656
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   29 October 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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VICTOR BURGIN is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA STEFANIE BURKLE is an artist and Professor of Fine Arts at the Technical University, Berlin, Germany PHILIPP EKARDT is a Research Associate at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany THOMAS ELSAESSER is Emeritus Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands MARY FULBROOK is Professor of German History at University College London, UK MAXIMILIAN GWIAZDA is a post-doctoral Research Associate on the 'Conflict in Cities and the Contested State' project in the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK JULIAN JONKER is a Lecturer in the Department of Private Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa GEOFFREY KANTARIS is Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese DANIEL LIBESKIND is an architect, based in New York MARTIN NACHBAR is a choreographer, dancer and performer, based in Berlin, Germany WENDY PULLAN is Senior Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, UK HENRIK REEH is Associate Professor of Humanistic Urban Studies and Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark JOCHEN ROLLER is a choreographer, performer, teacher and curator, based in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany LUCIA RUPRECHT is Fellow in German at Emmanuel College and affiliated Lecturer atthe Department of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge, UK CHARITY SCRIBNER is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA KAREN E. TILL is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic University, USA JANET WARD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

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