Memory Culture and the Contemporary City: Building Sites

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Monument and Melancholia....Pages 17-31
Sonnen-Insulaner: On a Berlin Island of Memory....Pages 32-51
Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin....Pages 52-68
Global Building Sites — Between Past and Future....Pages 69-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin....Pages 85-105
Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem’s ‘City of David’....Pages 106-125
Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin’s Doubly Dictatorial Past....Pages 126-144
Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War....Pages 145-160
Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin’s Political Underground....Pages 161-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage....Pages 181-190
Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films....Pages 191-207
Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tillmans....Pages 208-222
On the Road with mnemonic nonstop....Pages 223-233
Back Matter....Pages 234-238