Architecture, Media, and Memory : : Facing Complexity in Post-9/11 New York
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Mourning and protest : the spontaneous memorials at Union Square -- Absence and plenitude : the National September 11 Memorial and Museum -- Creative recall : digital design, architecture and the challenge of memory -- Algorithmic remembrance : the interaction designs of local projects -- False targets and social media : confronting conspiracy theories -- Landfills and lifescapes : the transformation of New York's Fresh Kills.
Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath - from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond. Yet this is not simply a book about post-9/11 architecture. It instead presents 9/11 as a multifaceted case study to explore a discourse on memory and its representation in the built environment. It argues that the reconstruction of New York must be considered in relation to larger issues of urban development, ongoing global conflicts, the rise of digital media, and the culture, philosophy and aesthetics of memory. It shows how understanding architecture in New York post-9/11 requires bringing memory into contact with a complex array of political, economic and social forces. Demonstrating an ability to explain complex philosophical ideas in language that will be accessible to students and researchers alike in architecture, urban studies, cultural studies and memory studies, this book serves as a thought-provoking account of the intertwining of contemporary architecture, media and memory.
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Ladies Library Collection
PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 162 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781350037663
1350037664
SUBJECTS
Memorials -- New York.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Social aspects -- New York.
Collective memory and city planning -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.