TY - BOOK ID - 2544314 TI - The city of collective memory : its historical imagery and architectural entertainments PY - 1996 SN - 0262023717 9780262023719 026252211X 9780262522113 PB - Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Architecture and society KW - Architecture et société KW - Architectuur en maatschappij KW - Stadsverfraaiing KW - Urban beautification KW - Villes -- Embellissement KW - Architecture KW - -Architecture and society KW - City planning KW - -Urban beautification KW - Ruimtelijke ordening ; architectuur en maatschappij KW - Stadsplanning ; architectuur ; geschiedenis KW - Urbanisme KW - (091) KW - 71(091) KW - 711.4 KW - Beautification of cities and towns KW - Cities and towns KW - City beautification KW - Embellisement (Urban renewal) KW - Embellishment, Urban KW - Embellissement (Urban renewal) KW - Urban embellishment KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - Civic planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - Model cities KW - Redevelopment, Urban KW - Slum clearance KW - Town planning KW - Urban design KW - Urban development KW - Urban planning KW - Land use KW - Planning KW - Art, Municipal KW - Civic improvement KW - Regional planning KW - Architecture and sociology KW - Society and architecture KW - Sociology and architecture KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Aesthetics KW - Psychological aspects KW - (Geschiedenis) KW - Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; geschiedenis KW - Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw KW - Beautification KW - Government policy KW - Management KW - Social aspects KW - Human factors KW - Design and construction KW - Urban beautification. KW - Architecture and society. KW - Stedenbouw. KW - Sociale ideeën. KW - Psychologische aspecten. KW - Architectuurtheorieën. KW - Design urbain KW - Villes KW - Cities KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Aesthetics. KW - Aspect psychologique. KW - Esthétique. KW - Embellissement. KW - Aspect social. KW - Histoire. KW - History KW - 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw KW - History. KW - Architectural aesthetics KW - Aesthetics, Architectural KW - Sociology of environment KW - Environmental planning KW - World history KW - architecture [discipline] KW - aesthetics KW - esthetica KW - architectuur KW - Symbolism in city planning KW - Symbolisme en urbanisme KW - Aspect psychologique KW - Esthétiques KW - Embellissement KW - Histoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2544314 AB - 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. ER -