Memories of cities : trips and manifestoes
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Memories of cities : trips and manifestoes
(Ashgate studies in architecture series)
Ashgate, c2013
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [197]-205
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment. Drawing upon fiction and non-fiction, and illustrated by original photographs, the essays employ a variety of narrative forms including memoirs, letters, and diary entries. They take the reader on a journey to cities such as Glasgow, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Marseille, laying bare the contradictions of capitalist architectural and urban development, whilst simultaneously revealing alternative visions of how buildings and cities might be produced and organised.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 The Glimmer of Other Worlds: Questions on Alternative Architectural Practice
- Chapter 2 Violent Stone: The City of Dialectical Justice - Three Tales from Court
- Chapter 3 Paris: Ghosts and Visions of a Revolutionary City
- Chapter 4 Letters from the Front Line of the Building Industry: 1918-1938
- Chapter 5 Foreign Bodies: Corps Etranger
- Chapter 6 The (Dis)Integrating City: The Russian Architectural and Literary Avant-Garde
- Chapter 7 Sketches of War II: The Graveyards of Historical Memory
- Chapter 8 The Shadow of Economic History II: The Architecture of Boom, Slump and Crisis
- Chapter 9 Scares and Squares II: A Literary Journey into the Architectural Imaginary
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