The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments

di M.Christine Boyer (Autore)

MIT Press Ltd, 1996

Christine Boyer faces head-on the crisis of the city in the late twentieth century, taking us on a fascinating journey through theaters and museums, panoramas and maps, buildings and institutions that are used to construct a new reading of the city as a system of representation, a complex cultural entity. Boyer brings together elements and concepts from geography, critical theory, architecture, literature, and painting in a synthetic and readable work that is broad in its reach and original in its insights. What finally emerges is a sense of the city reinvigorated with richness and potential. The City of Collective Memory describes a series of different visual and mental models by which the urban environment has been recognized, depicted, and planned. Boyer identifies three major "maps": one common to the traditional city-the city as a work of art; one characteristic of the modern city-the city as panorama; and one appropriate to the contemporary city-the city as spectacle. It is a richly illustrated and documented study that pays considerable attention to the normally hidden and unspoken codes that regulate the order imposed on and derived from the city. A wide range of secondary historical literature and theoretical work is considered, with evident debts to structuralist analysis of urban form represented by Aldo Rossi, as well to much post-structuralist criticism from Walter Benjamin to the present.

• Autore: M.Christine Boyer
• Editore: MIT Press Ltd
• Collana: The MIT Press
• Anno: 1996
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 572 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 173 mm
• Peso: 748 gr.
• EAN: 9780262522113

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