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Art Commission of the City of New York --- History --- Public art --- New York (State) --- New York (N.Y.) --- Urban beautification --- Art [American ] --- 20th century --- Art, American --- History. --- Art public --- Villes--Embellissement --- Art américain --- Histoire --- Villes --- Embellissement

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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.

Architecture and society --- Architecture et société --- Architectuur en maatschappij --- Stadsverfraaiing --- Urban beautification --- Villes -- Embellissement --- Architecture --- -Architecture and society --- City planning --- -Urban beautification --- Ruimtelijke ordening ; architectuur en maatschappij --- Stadsplanning ; architectuur ; geschiedenis --- Urbanisme --- (091) --- 71(091) --- 711.4 --- Beautification of cities and towns --- Cities and towns --- City beautification --- Embellisement (Urban renewal) --- Embellishment, Urban --- Embellissement (Urban renewal) --- Urban embellishment --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Aesthetics --- Psychological aspects --- (Geschiedenis) --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; geschiedenis --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Beautification --- Government policy --- Management --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Design and construction --- Urban beautification. --- Architecture and society. --- Stedenbouw. --- Sociale ideeën. --- Psychologische aspecten. --- Architectuurtheorieën. --- Design urbain --- Villes --- Cities --- Psychological aspects. --- Aesthetics. --- Aspect psychologique. --- Esthétique. --- Embellissement. --- Aspect social. --- Histoire. --- History --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- History. --- Architectural aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Architectural --- Sociology of environment --- Environmental planning --- World history --- architecture [discipline] --- aesthetics --- esthetica --- architectuur --- Symbolism in city planning --- Symbolisme en urbanisme --- Aspect psychologique --- Esthétiques --- Embellissement --- Histoire