Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul
Author:   Jin-Sung Chun (Busan National University of Education, Republic of Korea) ,  Youngjae Josephine Bae
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367639952


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul


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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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Author:   Jin-Sung Chun (Busan National University of Education, Republic of Korea) ,  Youngjae Josephine Bae
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780367639952


ISBN 10:   0367639955
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Prologue: The Phantasm(agoria) of Modernity 1. In Search of Prussian Classicism 2. Beyond the Prussia of Asia 3. An Eerie Phantasmagoria of Athena. Epilogue: Sites of Memory, Spaces of Hope

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

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