Vienna – Urban Memories and the Reification of Culture
Vienna – Urban Memories and the Reification of Culture

Summary/Abstract: Central-European cities with a significant historical heritage materialized through an architectural landscape that does not only consist of housing quarters, museums, archives, boulevards, squares, palaces, and memorials, face a specific paradox. Though the economy, new political premises such as a common European market of commodities and capital, and the imperatives of technological change demand far-reaching interventions into the urban topography by implementing new infrastructures, potentially abandoning or at least reshaping the material remains of the historical heritage, growing numbers of urbanites mobilize against such interventions and articulate their anxieties that the unique character of their city could be destroyed.

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