As a continuation of 'Identity of Cities and City of Identities',
this book covers the arguments around the
memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban
places. As cities experience transitional phases of growth,
development, decline, and decay, the author urges considering the
notion of urban memory in place-making strategies and design
decision-making processes. These explorations would add value to
primary fields of architecture, architectural history, cognitive
science, human geography, and urbanism. Divided into eight
chapters, this book puts together a comprehensive knowledge of
urban memory in city transitions. By studying urban memory, the
author delves into conceptions of mental mapping, knowledge of
environments, cognition of places, and the perceptual dimension of
urbanism. Undoubtedly, urban memory plays a significant part in the
future movements of humanistic urbanism. Given the significances of
scale, pace, and mode of city transitions globally, we should
remember who are the ultimate users of those living environments.
Therefore, in this book, the author debates two contradictions of
'memory of place vs. place of memory', and 'significance of place
vs. place of significance'. Each of these is believed to be a
paradox of its own, indicating places are significant through the
systematic networks of cities, memories are meaningful through the
neural information processing, and place memories are the essence
of urban identities. The book's ultimate goal is to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the space-time frame of place in making memorable
places. Through the comprehensive explorations of many global
examples, we can evaluate the significance of place in mind more
carefully. This is narrated based on the recognition of nostalgia
in cities, socio-temporal qualities in places, and the network of
processes in our minds. In return, the aim is to provide new
knowledge to make memorable cities, enhance social experiences, and
capture and value the significance of place in mind.
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