The City of Collective Memory
The City of Collective Memory
The City of Collective Memory
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• “<strong>Collective</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>” , in general, refers to shared memories <strong>of</strong> a particular group or family<br />
framed in space and time.<br />
Eg. <strong>Collective</strong> <strong>Memory</strong> <strong>of</strong> a nation is represented partly by the memorials it chooses to erect.<br />
Whatever a nation chooses to memorialise in a physical monument is an indicator <strong>of</strong> its<br />
collective memory.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> city is a colllective expression <strong>of</strong> architecture and it carries the memory traces <strong>of</strong> earlier<br />
architectural forms, city plans and public monuments.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> physical structure <strong>of</strong> a city always evolves ,being deformed or forgotten, adapted to<br />
other purposes or eradicated by different needs.