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Urban memory and visual culture in Berlin: framing the asynchronous city, 1957-2012

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As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment. The book focuses on the visual culture of the city (architecture, memorials, photography and film). It argues that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in a contemporary 'overexposed' city, whose spatial and temporal boundaries have long since disintegrated.

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Series Title

Cities and cultures

Call Number

153 WAR u

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 2016

Collation

212 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789089648532

Classification

153

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20th century
Civilization
Germany
Motion pictures
Berlin (Germany)
Collective memory
Memorials
Architektur
Denkmal
Kulturelle Identita˜t
Sta˜dtebau
Berlin

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