Memory culture and the contemporary city : building sites / edited by Uta Staiger, Henriette Steiner, and Andrew Webber.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction PART I Monument and Melancholia--V.Burgin Sonnen-Insulaner: On a Berlin Island of Memory--T.Elsaesser Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin--H. Reeh Global Building Sites Between Past and Future--D.Libeskind PART II Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin--K.E.Till and J.Jonker Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's City of David--W. Pullan and M.Gwiazda Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past; M. Fulbrook Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War--J. Ward Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground--C. Scribner PART III Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage--Stefanie Bürkle Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films--G.Kantaris Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tilmans--P.Ekardt On the Road with mnemonic nonstop--L.Ruprecht with M.Nachbar & J.Roller.

"These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York"--Provided by publisher.