The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Contents
Preface x
Acknowledgments xvi
Contributors xx
1 Things, Flows, Filters, Tactics 2
Iain Borden, Jane Rendell, Joe Kerr, and Alicia Pivaro
Part I Filters 28
2 Twice-Told Stories: The Double Erasure of Times Square 30
M. Christine Boyer
3 That Place Where: Some Thoughts on Memory and the City 54
Barry Curtis
4 The Uncompleted Monument: London, War, and the
Architecture of Remembrance 68
Joe Kerr
5 From Tribeca to Triburbia: A New Concept of the City 90
William Menking
6 “Bazaar Beauties” or “Pleasure Is Our Pursuit”: A Spatial Story 104
of Exchange
Jane Rendell
7 I Am a Videocam 122
Philip Tabor
8 Stories of Plain Territory: The Maidan, Calcutta 138
Helen Thomas
9 Colonialism, Power, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank 160
Shirley Wong