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

by M. Christine Boyer

Book Overview

This work faces the crisis of the city in the late 20th century, embarking on a journey through theatres and museums, panoramas and maps, buildings and institutions that are used to construct a new reading of the city as a system of representation. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262023717
• ISBN13: 9780262023719
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 9.3"