| Description |
viii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Cities and Museums about Them / Ian Jones -- 2. City Museums and the Geopolitics of Globalization / Georges Prevelakis -- 3. Museums of Cities and the Future of Cities / Chet Orloff -- 4. "The Novelties of the Town": Museums, Cities, and Historical Representation / Eric Sandweiss -- 5. The Prospect of a City Museum / Jack Lohman -- 6. Thinking the Present Historically at the Museum of Sydney / Caroline Butler-Bowdon and Susan Hunt -- 7. A City Museum for Stuttgart: Some Issues in Planning a Museum for the Twenty-First Century / Anja Dauschek -- 8. Taipei City Museum in the Making / Chi-jung Chu and Szu-yun Chang -- 9. Museums and Urban Renewal in Towns / Max Hebditch -- 10. The Development of the City of Kazan: The Museum Aspect / Gulchachak Rakhimzyanovna Nazipova -- 11. Defining a Research Agenda for City Museums in a Peripheralizing World / Geoffrey Edwards and Marie Louise Bourbeau |
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12. From Urban Blocks to City Blogs: Defining Attributes for the City Museum of Today / Marlen Mouliou |
| Summary |
"Traditionally, city museums have been keepers of city history. Many have been exercises in nostalgia, reflecting city pride. However, a new generation of museums focuses increasingly on the city's present and future as well as its past, and on the city in all of its diversity, challenges, and possibilities. Above all, these museums are gateways to understanding the city - our greatest and most complex creation and the place where half the world's population now lives. In this book, experts in the field explore this "new" city museum and the challenge of contributing positively to city development."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Based on papers from a conference held Aug. 2007 in Vienna, sponsored by CAMOC, the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Museums -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Historical museums -- Congresses.
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Cities and towns -- Congresses.
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City planning -- Congresses.
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Urban renewal -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Jones, Ian, 1935-
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Macdonald, Robert R.
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McIntyre, Darryl, 1949-
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| LC no. |
2008020766 |
| ISBN |
9780759111806 cloth alkaline paper |
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0759111804 cloth alkaline paper |
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