The City of Collective Memory

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City Images & Representional Forms • 3 aesthetic conventions representing the image of cities in the traditional, modern & contemporary time periods are identified: 1. The City as a Work of Art, 2. The City as Panorama, 3. The City of Spectacle.
The City as a Work of Art • Until the end of the 19 th century, builders of modern industrial cities were absorbed with picture-making. • This picture frame became emblematic of its unified and closed spatial order. • This period witnessed an architecture of ceremonial power whose monuments spoke of exemplary deeds, national unity and industrial glory. • The City as a Work of Art was an attempt to fulfill cultural and aesthetic needs destroyed in the turmoil of progress. View of Palace de la Concorde
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