Main entry:

Jordan, Jennifer A., 1970-

Title & Author:

Structures of memory : understanding urban change in Berlin and beyond / Jennifer A. Jordan.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Description:

xii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.
Landscapes of remembering and forgetting -- Blank slates and authentic traces: memorial culture in Berlin after 1945 -- Persistent memory: pre-1989 memorials after the fall of the wall -- Changing places: new memorials since 1989 -- Forgetting places -- Berlin and beyond.

Summary:

"In many different parts of the world people cordon off sites of great suffering or great heroism from routine use and employ these sites exclusively for purposes of remembrance. The author of this book turns to the landscape of contemporary Berlin in order to understand how some places are forgotten by all but eyewitnesses, whereas others become the sites of public ceremonies, museums, or commemorative monuments. The places examined mark the city's Nazi past and are often rendered off limits to use for apartments, shops, or offices. However, only a portion of all "authentic" sites--places with direct connections to acts of resistance or persecution during the Nazi era--actually become designated as places of official collective memory. Others are simply reabsorbed into the quotidian landscape. Remembering leaves its marks on the skin of the city, and the goal of this book is to analyze and understand precisely how." -- Publisher's description

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ISBN:

0804752761 (cloth ; alk. paper)
080475277X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780804752770 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780804752763

Subject:

City planning Germany Berlin.
Land use Germany Berlin.
Memorials Germany Berlin.
Utilisation du sol Allemagne Berlin.
Monuments commémoratifs Allemagne Berlin.
Buildings.
City planning.
Land use.
Memorials.
Gedenken
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
Landgebruik.
Gebouwen.
Gedenktekens.
Berlin (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Berlin (Germany) History 20th century.
Berlin (Allemagne) Constructions.
Berlin (Allemagne) Histoire 20e siècle.
Germany Berlin.
Berlin
Berlijn (stad)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Cultural memory in the present.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247037
Call No.: BIB 176594
Status: Available