Title & Author:

Cities full of symbols : a theory of urban space and culture / edited by Peter J.M. Nas.

Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Leiden University Press, 2011.

Description:

303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Restrictions:

This work is licensed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Generic (CC BY-ND-NC 1.0).

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Variety of symbols / Peter J.M. Nas, Marlies de Groot and Michelle Schut -- Emotion in the symbolic spectrum of Colombo, Sri Lanka / Michelle Schut, Peter J.M. Nas and Siri T. Hettige -- Squares, water and historic buildings : the transforming power of city marketing on urban symbolism in Ghent, Belgium / Rose-Anne Vermeer -- Urban symbolism in Yogyakarta : in search of the lost symbol / Pierpaolo De Giosa -- The changing image of Gdańsk, Poland : from regained homeland to multicultural city / Barbara Bossak-Herbst -- Obelisk and axis : urban symbolism of Buenos Aires / Lars Bakker -- A touch of tragedy : pre- and post- Tsunami symbolism in Banda Aceh, Indonesia / Rob van Leeuwen -- Imagining modernity : memory, space and symbolism of the Hague / Jialing Luo -- Urban symbolism and the new urbanism of indonesia / Hans-Dieter Evers -- Kudus and Blitar : a tale of two Javanese iconic cities / Pierpaolo De Giosa -- Jakarta through poetry / Esrih Bakker and Katie Saentaweedsook -- History in bronze : competing memories and symbolic representation in Albuquerque, New Mexico / Eveline Dürr -- The resilient city : New York after 9/11 and the new WTC designs / Georgina Kay -- Conclusion : Feeling at home in the city and the codification of urban symbolism research / Peter J.M. Nas and Pierpaolo De Giosa.

Summary:

Cities are full of symbols that bear the meanings that together constitute urban culture. These interdisciplinary case studies, from Yogyakarta to Leiden and from Buenos Aires to New York, employ urban symbolism theory and a focus on such symbols as the city's layout, statues, street names and popular culture. This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis's Graceland in Memphis. 'Cities Full of Symbols' develops urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new perspective on social cohesion. Approaches of architects, anthropologists, sociologists, social geographers and historians converge to make this a book for anyone interested in urban life, policymaking and city branding.--Cover.

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ISBN:

9789087281250
9087281250
9789089641250 (t. p. verso)
9089641254 (t. p. verso)
9789400600447 (ebook)
9400600445 (ebook)
9790000000000

Subject:

Symbolism in architecture.
Architecture and society.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban anthropology.
City planning Social aspects.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Architecture et société.
Écologie urbaine.
Anthropologie urbaine.
urban environments.
Society.
Stadt.
Städtebau.
Symbol.

Added entries:

Nas, P.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277512
Call No.: BIB 212368
Status: Available