Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin

As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how t...

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Main Author: Ward, Simon
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Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2021
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