Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul Contributor(s): Chun, Jin-Sung (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367639920 ISBN-13: 9780367639921 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - History | World - General |
Dewey: 720.943 |
LCCN: 2020028930 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 384 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |