Cities and Memory: a history of memorials in urban design from the Renaissance to Canberra
| dc.contributor.author | Stevens, Quentin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-23T07:28:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-23T07:28:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In recent decades, there has been a significant revival of interest and growth in numbers of public memorials – sculptures and structures in public spaces that convey information and social attitudes towards past persons, events and ideas, sometimes on sites associated with them, but which are themselves not historic material. This renaissance has been most marked in national capital cities, and is often traced back to the 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, a city which at that time had not erected any major new memorials in its key national space for almost four decades. By 2001, with increasing requests for new commemorative works, Washington’s National Capital Planning Commission found it necessary to produce a master plan for future memorials that set out key principles and identified 100 potential sites, and numerous other capitals have followed suit. There is at present very little comparative historical research that can guide such policy. To better understand this recent revival of interest in memorials and the modes of contemporary planning for them, this paper examines the historical evolution of the role and form of memorials within the overall planning and development of capital cities, both existing and new, from the Renaissance to the beginning of Modernism. It explores the contributions that memorials have made to the role of the capital city as a diagram that defines and communicates national history, identity and politics. Four main historical periods are considered: the re-planning and enlargement of Rome in the Sixteenth Century, especially under Pope Sixtus V; Neoclassical planning in Enlightenment Europe such as that of London, Edinburgh, Berlin and Vienna; the planning of colonial and post-colonial capitals in the New World, including Richmond, Virginia, Washington DC and Mexico City; and the City Beautiful Movement in North America at the end of the Nineteenth Century, leading to Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin’s 1913 plan for Canberra. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 900-903 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2106 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Cities and Memory: a history of memorials in urban design from the Renaissance to Canberra | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |