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Momchedjikova, Blagovesta.

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The miniature metropolis as memory palace.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The miniature metropolis as memory palace./
Author:	Momchedjikova, Blagovesta.
Description:	298 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2206.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3221977
ISBN:	9780542752339

The miniature metropolis as memory palace.
Momchedjikova, Blagovesta.

The miniature metropolis as memory palace. - 298 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2206.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2006.

This study is about how New York City was reshaped by urban impresario Robert Moses and exhibited at two New York World's Fairs. Moses, who changed the urban infrastructure of the city by introducing highways, bridges, and parks, also disrupted the urban fabric and displaced many communities in the process of urban redevelopment. At the end of his career, he commemorated his grandiose urban vision and achievements by commissioning a comprehensive architectural model of the metropolis---The Panorama of the City of New York. First exhibited at the New York World's Fair of 1964/65, the Panorama presented an exemplary city---unpeopled, clean, connected, and quiet---in its totality. Refurbished and redesigned since that time, the model has been on permanent display since 1972 in the Queens Museum of Art, itself a legacy of two world's fairs and major attraction on the former fairgrounds, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. No longer experienced as a ride, as it was at the fair, the Panorama is now an installation that visitors can circle along an ascending, circumferential ramp. Today, as in the past, the Panorama encapsulates three urban ideals: the city as architecture, the city as exhibit, and the city as garden. All of these Panorama "qualities" make the model an intricate memory palace and an ideal site for exploring the spatial and visual practices that dictate how cities are represented, experienced, and remembered.

ISBN: 9780542752339Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

The miniature metropolis as memory palace.
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