Cities and memory: a history of the role of memorials in urban design from the Renaissance to Canberra. (3rd May 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Cities and memory: a history of the role of memorials in urban design from the Renaissance to Canberra. (3rd May 2020)
- Main Title:
- Cities and memory: a history of the role of memorials in urban design from the Renaissance to Canberra
- Authors:
- Stevens, Quentin
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: In recent decades, there has been a significant revival of interest and growth in numbers of public memorials – sculptures and structures in public spaces that convey information and social attitudes about past persons, events and ideas. This renaissance has been most marked in national capital cities. To better understand this recent revival of interest in memorials, and their potential to reproduce or transform social and spatial relationships within cities, this paper examines the historical evolution of the role and form of memorials within the overall planning and development of Western capital cities, both existing and new, from their origins in Ancient Rome and through their later development from the Renaissance to the beginning of Modernism. It charts memorials' ongoing contribution to the role of the capital city as a diagram that defines and communicates national history, identity and politics, contrasting this to ways that memorials have adapted to changing technological and political realities of land development and management.
- Is Part Of:
- Planning perspectives. Volume 35:Number 3(2020)
- Journal:
- Planning perspectives
- Issue:
- Volume 35:Number 3(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 35, Issue 3 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0035-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 401
- Page End:
- 431
- Publication Date:
- 2020-05-03
- Subjects:
- Memorials -- capital cities -- urban design -- City Beautiful -- monuments
City planning -- Periodicals
Land use -- Planning -- Periodicals
Planning -- Periodicals
711.09005 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rppe20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/02665433.2019.1577166 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0266-5433
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 6509.252300
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