Desire Lines
Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City
1st Edition
Published on 19. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-415-70131-0 (ISBN)
Description
This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act.
Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, Desire Lines addresses the innovative strategies that have emerged in the practice of defining, identifying and developing heritage sites.
In a unique multi-disciplinary approach, contributions are featured from a broad spectrum of fields, including the built environment and public culture and education. Showcasing work from tour operators and museum curators alongside that of university-based scholars, this book is a comprehensive and singularly authoritative volume that charts the development of new and emergent public cultures in post-apartheid South Africa through the making and unmaking of its urban spaces.
This pioneering collection of essays and case studies is an indispensable guide for those working within or studying heritage practice.
Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, Desire Lines addresses the innovative strategies that have emerged in the practice of defining, identifying and developing heritage sites.
In a unique multi-disciplinary approach, contributions are featured from a broad spectrum of fields, including the built environment and public culture and education. Showcasing work from tour operators and museum curators alongside that of university-based scholars, this book is a comprehensive and singularly authoritative volume that charts the development of new and emergent public cultures in post-apartheid South Africa through the making and unmaking of its urban spaces.
This pioneering collection of essays and case studies is an indispensable guide for those working within or studying heritage practice.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
84 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
84 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-70131-0 (9780415701310)
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Noeleen Murray | Nick Shepherd | Martin Hall
Desire Lines
Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City
E-Book
08/2007
1st Edition
Routledge
€104.99
Available for download
Noeleen Murray | Nick Shepherd | Martin Hall
Desire Lines
Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City
E-Book
08/2007
Routledge
€104.99
Available for download
Noeleen Murray | Nick Shepherd | Martin Hall
Desire Lines
Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City
Book
07/2007
1st Edition
Routledge
€262.70
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Persons
Noeleen Murray is an architect and lecturer in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town
Nick Shepherd is an archaeologist and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town
Martin Hall is an historical archaeologist and professor. Currently he is Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, University of Cape Town
Nick Shepherd is an archaeologist and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town
Martin Hall is an historical archaeologist and professor. Currently he is Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, University of Cape Town
Content
Part 1: Planning Fictions 1. Planning Fictions: The Limits of Spatial Engineering and Governance in a Cape Flats Ghetto 2. 'Manenberg Avenue is Where it's Happening' 3. Remaking Modernism: South African Architecture In and Out of Time 4. Engaging with Difference: Understanding the Limits of Multiculturalism in Planning in the South African Context 5. Missing in Khayelitsha Part 2: Sites of Memory and Identity 6. Memory, Nation Building and the Post-Apartheid City: The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg 7. Picturing Cape Town 8. Memory and the Politics of History in the District Six Museum 9. A Second Life: Heritage, Museums, Mimesis and the Tour Guides of Robben Island 10. Social Institutions as 'Places of Memory' and 'Places to Remember': The Case of the Ottery School of Industries 11. Living in the Past: Historic Futures in Double Time Part 3: Burial Sites 12. On a Knife-Edge or in the Fray: Managing Heritage Sites in a Vibrant Democracy 13. Leaving the City: Gender, Pastoral Power and the Discourse of Development in the Eastern Cape 14. The World Below: Post-Apartheid, Urban Imaginaries and the Bones of the Prestwich Street Dead Part 4: Transit Spaces 15. Transit Spaces: Picturing Urban Change 16. Paths of Nostalgia and Desire through Heritage Destinations at the Cape of Good Hope 17. Museums on Cape Town's Township Tours 18. Public Reflections 19. A Renaissance on our Doorsteps