Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) - Softcover

Chun, Jin-Sung

 
9780367639952: Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367639955 ISBN 13: 9780367639952
Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jin-Sung Chun is a professor of history at Busan National University of Education.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367639955
ISBN 13 
9780367639952
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
402