The Re-Use of Urban Ruins: Atmospheric Inquiries of the City

The Re-Use of Urban Ruins: Atmospheric Inquiries of the City
ISBN-10
131763022X
ISBN-13
9781317630227
Category
Social Science
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2014-12-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Hanna Katharina Göbel

Description

How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk and the Café Moskau in order to make visible an interdisciplinary regime of design experts who have developed a professional sensorium turning the built memory of the city into an object of aesthetic inquiry.

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