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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory

by Andreas Huyssen, essays written 1996-2002 “Architecture has always been deeply invested in the shaping of political and national identities…” p. 49 I like the idea of palimpsests (and city as palimpsest), and I love studies of memory. The book … Continue reading

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