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The city of collective memory : its historical imagery and architectural entertainments

Print Book, English, 1996
1st MIT Press pbk. ed View all formats and editions
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1996
x, 560 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780262522113, 9780262023719, 026252211X, 0262023717
35002614
1. The Place of History and Memory in the Contemporary City
2. City Images and Representational Forms
pt. 1. Historical Precedents for the City of Collective Memory
3. The City and the Theater
4. The Art of Collective Memory
5. Topographical Travelogues and City Views
6. Invented Traditions and Cityscapes
pt. 2. Contemporary Forms of the City of Collective Memory
7. The Instruments of Memory
8. Manhattan Montage
9. The City as Radical Artifice