Urbanization and Locality: Strengthening Identity and by Fang Wang, Martin Prominski

By Fang Wang, Martin Prominski

Based on a dialogue of conflicts within the urbanization procedure, this booklet presents theoretical and functional options for the upkeep and improvement of city localities. at the foundation of informative case stories, it unearths the similarities and exact features of urbanization in Germany and China. the method of city progress and the long run pattern of locality and urbanization also are tested. The e-book gathers contributions from architects, panorama designers, environmental engineers, city planners and geographers, who learn city matters from their person views and supply equipment for protecting and constructing city localities. As such, it expresses responses to city improvement developments opposed to the backdrop of sustainability within the twenty first century.

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Kansteiner (2002) mentions three factors of collective memory: the intellectual and cultural traditions, memory makers, and memory consumers; his work gives a temporal dimension to collective memory. Bélanger (2002) and Mowla (2004) propose the idea that products of urban memory usually favor a small minority of elites; in other words, privileged groups are typically in a better position than others to propose their memory as the predominant urban memory. Postalcy et al. (2006) has considered the experiences of both inhabitants and observers as regards their effects on urban memory; he concludes that major changes in the physical or social environment can cause discontinuities and urban memory loss.

Similar to Halbwachs, Nora’s (1989) conception of lieux de mémoire (places of memory) highlights both material sites of memory, including burial places, cathedrals, battlefields, and prisons, as well as non-material sites of celebrations, spectacles, and rituals. Zhu (2005) adds the elements of subjective experience and time to urban memory, divided into corporal (participations in action), field and scenery (ambient and mental sensation of object characters), and symbolic elements (homonym, type, and landmark that emphasize the cultural experience of subjects).

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