Memory Culture and the Contemporary City

Building Sites

  • Uta Staiger
  • Henriette Steiner
  • Andrew Webber
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Uta Staiger, Henriette Steiner
      Pages 1-13

  3. Urban Memoirs

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 15-15
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    2. Monument and Melancholia
      Victor Burgin
      Pages 17-31
    3. Sonnen-Insulaner: On a Berlin Island of Memory
      Thomas Elsaesser
      Pages 32-51
    4. Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin
      Henrik Reeh
      Pages 52-68
    5. Global Building Sites — Between Past and Future
      Daniel Libeskind
      Pages 69-81

  4. Conflict Zones

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 83-83
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    2. Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin
      Karen E. Till, Julian Jonker
      Pages 85-105
    3. Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem’s ‘City of David’
      Wendy Pullan, Maximilian Gwiazda
      Pages 106-125
    4. Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin’s Doubly Dictatorial Past
      Mary Fulbrook
      Pages 126-144
    5. Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War
      Janet Ward
      Pages 145-160
    6. Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin’s Political Underground
      Charity Scribner
      Pages 161-178

  5. Art Works

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 179-179
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    2. Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage
      Stefanie Bürkle
      Pages 181-190
    3. Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films
      Geoffrey Kantaris
      Pages 191-207
    4. Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tillmans
      Philipp Ekardt
      Pages 208-222
    5. On the Road with mnemonic nonstop
      Lucia Ruprecht, Martin Nachbar, Jochen Roller
      Pages 223-233
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 234-238
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

architecture Buildings culture Salem

Editors and affiliations

  • Uta Staiger
    • 1
  • Henriette Steiner
    • 2
  • Andrew Webber
    • 3
  1. 1.University College LondonUK
  2. 2.Centre for Research on Architecture, Society and the Built EnvironmentETH ZurichSwitzerland
  3. 3.University of CambridgeUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246959
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Media & Culture Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-36655-2
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-24695-9
  • About this book