The city of collective memory : its historical imagery and architectural entertainments.
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Place of History and Memory in the Contemporary City -- City Images and Representational Forms -- Historical Precedents for the City of Collective Memory -- The City and the Theater -- The Art of Collective Memory -- Topographical Travelogues and City Views -- Invented Traditions and Cityscapes -- Contemporary Forms of the City of Collective Memory -- The Instruments of Memory -- Manhattan Montage -- Epilogue -- The City as Radical Artifice -- Notes -- Index. 1. 2. Pt. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. 2. 7. 8. 9.
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