Imaginary Athens: urban space and memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul

"This book comprehensively examines architecture, urban planning, and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled, transnational process that involves an imaginative geography based on embellished memories of classical Athens. Schinkel&#...

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1. Verfasser: Chŏn, Chin-sŏng 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Routledge 2021
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in cultural history 97
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Zusammenfassung:"This book comprehensively examines architecture, urban planning, and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled, transnational process that involves an imaginative geography based on embellished memories of classical Athens. Schinkel's classicist architecture in Berlin, especially the principle of tectonics at its core, came to be adopted effectively at faraway cities in East Asia, merging with the notion of national polity as Imperial Japan sought to reinvent Tokyo and mutating into an inevitable reflection of modern civilization upon reaching colonial Seoul, all of which give reason to ruminate over the phantasmagoria of modernity"--
Beschreibung:"This book is a revised, supplemented, and translated edition of Sangsang ui Atene, Perullin, Tok'yo, Soul: Kiok gwa konch'uk i pijonaen purhyop'waum ui munhwasa [Imaginary Athens in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul: A Cultural History Shaped by the Discord Between Architecture and Memory] published in Korean by Imagine 1000 (2015). Published in Japanese by the Hosei University Press (2019)"
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Beschreibung:1 Online Ressource (xvii, 384 Seiten) illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781000262254
1000262251
9781003121701
1003121705
9781000262216
1000262219
9781000262230
1000262235
DOI:10.4324/9781003121701

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