How Cities Remember

Catalog description

To live in a city is to reckon with the physical remains of history. Earlier buildings, streets, and public spaces shape daily movements and experiences. This material backdrop of urban life is not neutral but created, a constant negotiation between buildings that have survived rather than being demolished, people and events that were actively commemorated rather than erased or forgotten. How do we choose what endures through development, disaster, and political upheaval? What things does a city remember and what is left to fade from memory? And how does the past influence the present in city life? How Cites Remember explores how the built spaces of cities, and the people who live in them, construct and interact with memories of what came before.