Architecture, media, and memory : facing complexity in post-9/11 New York /

Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath, from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond. Yet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McKim, Joel, 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2019]
Subjects:	Memorials > New York (State) > New York. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York. Collective memory and city planning > New York (State) > New York. New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc.

Table of Contents:

Mourning and protest : the spontaneous memorials at Union Square
Absence and plenitude : the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
Creative recall : digital design, architecture and the challenge of memory
Algorithmic remembrance : the interaction designs of local projects
False targets and social media : confronting conspiracy theories
Landfills and lifescapes : the transformation of New York's Fresh Kills.