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

by M. Christine Boyer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026252211X
• ISBN13: 9780262522113
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher