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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Ashgate,
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| Publisher Address: | Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, VT |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Re-materialising cultural geography |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 205 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781409406679 (hbk.) 1409406679 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781409406884 (ebook) 1409406881 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | TU984 |
| CLC: |
TU984 K901 |
| Call Number: | TU984/R386 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Haim Yacobi and Tovi Fenster ---- 1. Remembering forgotten landscapes: community gardens in New York City and the reconstruction of cultural diversity / Efrat Eizenberg --- 2. Memory, recognition and the architecture of a diasporic place: the case of Netivot, Israel / Haim Yacobi --- 3. Neighbourhood and belonging: Turkish immigrant women constructing the everyday public space / Eda Unlu-Yucesoy Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together a range of case studies from North America, South Asia, East Europe and the Middle East, it analyzes how contested national, ethnic and cultural sentiments, that shape memories and practices of belonging, clash in designing, planning and experiencing urban spaces. |