Remembering, forgetting and city builders / edited by Tovi Fenster and Haim Yacobi.

• Introduction / Haim Yacobi and Tovi Fenster ---- 1. Remembering forgotten landscapes: community gardens in New York City and the reconstruction of cultural diversity / Efrat Eizenberg --- 2. Memory, recognition and the architecture of a diasporic place: the case of Netivot, Israel / Haim Yacobi --- 3. Neighbourhood and belonging: Turkish immigrant women constructing the everyday public space / Eda Unlu-Yucesoy --- 4. Memory, belonging, and resistance: the struggle over place among the Bedouin-Arabs of the Negev / Safa Abu-Rabia --- 5. One place -- different memories: the case of Yaad and Miaar / Tovi Fenster --- 6. The reconstructed city as rhetorical space: the case of Volgograd / Elena Trubina --- 7. Seoul: city, identity, and the construction of the past / Guy Podoler --- 8. 'We shouldn't sell our country!': the reconfiguration of Jewish urban property and ethno-national political discourses and projects in (post) Socialist Romania / Damiana Gabriela Otoiu --- 9. Forgetting and remembering: Frankfurt's Altstadt after the Second World War / Marianne Rodenstein --- 10. From 'patrimoine partagé' to 'whose heritage'? Critical reflections on colonial built heritage in the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Johan Lagae.

• Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together a range of case studies from North America, South Asia, East Europe and the Middle East, it analyzes how contested national, ethnic and cultural sentiments, that shape memories and practices of belonging, clash in designing, planning and experiencing urban spaces. Going beyond the claim that such situations exist in many parts of the world because communities construct their 'past memories' (and thus their collective forgetfulness) within their current daily life and future aspirations, it explores how the very acts of planning and urban design (which are considered 'rational', 'professional' and 'neutral') are rooted in the existing structures of hegemonic power (in terms of knowledge production and agency) and thus contested. Based on critical theories of planning and urban design the book critically examines the symbolic and tangible construction of places in cities. With a line-up of contributors from the fields of architecture, geography, planning, anthropology and sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, it provides a rich and interdisciplinaryview which reveals valuable insights into the conflicts over memory and belonging which are spatially expressed and mediated through the official planning apparatus. -- Back cover. 

Ämnesord

Stadsplanering  -- fältstudier (sao)

Kollektivt minne  -- sociala aspekter -- fältstudier (sao)

Kulturgeografi  -- fältstudier (sao)

Stadsgeografi  -- fältstudier (sao)

Human geography  -- Case studies. (LCSH)

Urban geography  -- Case studies. (LCSH)

City planning  -- Case studies. (LCSH)

Geographical perception  -- Case studies. (LCSH)

Collective memory  -- Social aspects -- Case studies. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

GF50 (LCC)

304.2/3 (DDC)

Uhb (kssb/8 (machine generated))