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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Urban memory"”.
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Urban memory and the evolution of the urban environment
… connection to the world is facilitated by memory as it envelops every feature of human experience. In the absence of memory, meaning collapses. In architectural terms, if memory exists as the foundation upon which meaning is built, if a person is to find and experience meaning in their …
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Fordsburg's urban memory - cultural significance and its embodiment in the ordinary landscape
… have gained significance to become anchors for memory and identity in Fordsburg's landscape of rapid urban and social change. An exploration of Fordsburg's history and evolution was undertaken so as to reflect on multiple interpretations and insights into unacknowledged histories of the area. …
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The memory laboratory : reclaiming and remebering the archeological fragments of Cape Town's original shoreline
… space and particularly the role of collective urban memory in reading and understanding public space in the city, as well as being a means of imbuing public space with meaning. This is closely linked to ideas of shared experience, identity and legacy. These ideas are widely discussed and …
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Picturing India's "Land of Kings" Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs
… face but also captured the charisma of Udaipur's urban space. This dissertation examines the means by which artists pictured Udaipur and its environs for multiple patrons and mixed audiences, thereby constructing the city's memory and mapping diverse territorial claims of regional kings, courtly …
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Walking in Landscapes of Displacement: The Spatiality of Transcultural Activism
… goes beyond this ‘moment’ to include both the urban every-day and its cross-generational causes and impacts in a post/colonial context. Crucially, it reframes the debate from the perspective of displaced persons as subjects contextualized within history and the city rather than as outsiders. …