{"product_id":"the-city-of-collective-memory-its-historical-imagery-and-architectural-entertainments","title":"The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 026252211X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Boyer, M. Christine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine 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 citythe city as a work of art; one characteristic of the modern citythe city as panorama; and one appropriate to the contemporary citythe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49680510157040,"sku":"NEW026252211X","price":76.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/the-city-of-collective-memory-its-historical-imagery-and-architectural-entertainments","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}