Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City

by Mark Crinson (Editor)

Overview

Nine previously unpublished essays form an interdisciplinary assessment of urban memory in the modern city, analysing this burgeoning area of interest from the perspectives of sociology, architectural and art history, psychoanalysis, culture and critical theory. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, images, maps and specially commissioned artwork, this work applies a critical and creative approach to existing theories of urban memory, and examines how these ideas are actualised in the forms of the built environment in the modernist and post-industrial city.

A particular area of focus is post-industrial Manchester, but the book also includes studies of current-day Singapore, New York after 9/11, modern museums in industrial gallery spaces, the writings of Paul Auster and W.G. Sebald, memorials built in concrete, and contemporary art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415334068
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/02/2005
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark Crinson

Table of Contents

List of illustrations, Illustration credits, Notes on contributors, Urban memory – an introduction, Acknowledgements, 1. Trauma and memory in the city: from Auster to Austerlitz, 2. Urban memory/suburban oblivion, 3. Clocking off in Ancoats: time and remembrance in the post-industrial city, 4. Concrete and memory, 5. Totemic Park: symbolic representation in post-industrial space, 6. Remembering, forgetting, and the industrial gallery space, 7. The future of the past: archiving Singapore, 8. 9/11, 9. Mnemotechny of the industrial city: contemporary art and urban memory, Index