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	Título: City Collective Memory, The. Its Historical Imagery And Arquitectural Entertain
	Autor: Boyer, M. Christine	Precio: $752.00
	Editorial: The Mit Press	Año: 1996
	Tema: Arquitectura, Urbanismo	Edición: 1ª
	Sinopsis	ISBN: 9780262522113
	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. .Endorsements "Reading Boyer's provocative, erudite book has the fascinationof a city walk when one is never sure what will be next inview.... [T]his is assuredly a rich, illuminating book." _Andrew Mead, The Architects' Journal Awards Winner of the 1994 Lewis Mumford Prize given by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH). .

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