{"product_id":"the-city-of-collective-memory-its-historical-imagery-and-architectural-entertainments","title":"The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments","description":"Christine Boyer faces head-on the crisis of the city in the late twentieth century  taking us on a fascinating journey through theaters and museums  panoramas and maps  buildings and institutions that are used to construct a new reading of the city as a system of representation  a complex cultural entity. Boyer brings together elements and concepts from geography  critical theory  architecture  literature  and painting in a synthetic and readable work that is broad in its reach and original in its insights. What finally emerges is a sense of the city reinvigorated with richness and potential. The City of Collective Memory describes a series of different visual and mental models by which the urban environment has been recognized  depicted  and planned. Boyer identifies three major \"maps\": one common to the traditional citythe city as a work of art; one characteristic of the modern citythe city as panorama; and one appropriate to the contemporary citythe city as spectacle. It is a richly illustrated and documented study that pays considerable attention to the normally hidden and unspoken codes that regulate the order imposed on and derived from the city. A wide range of secondary historical literature and theoretical work is considered  with evident debts to structuralist analysis of urban form represented by Aldo Rossi  as well to much post-structuralist criticism from Walter Benjamin to the present.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44686221148213,"sku":"ByrdShop_026252211X","price":52.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_026252211X_3c644e22-ee8f-4175-8862-489849265d5b.jpg?v=1765583301","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-city-of-collective-memory-its-historical-imagery-and-architectural-entertainments","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}