Na Li

Kensington Market

Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto's Urban Landscape

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Li’s book will be a must-read for those fascinated with this iconic Toronto neighbourhood, as well as anyone with an interest in the role heritage and collective memory can play in urban planning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781442616219
• ISBN-10: 1442616210
• Artikelnr.: 42699362

Autorenporträt

Na Li is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Chongqing University and an adjunct professor at Shanghai Normal University, China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Memory and History: Urban Streetscapes as Public History
2. Kensington Market – an Urban Neighbourhood, a Cultural Metaphor
3. Collective Memory and Kensington Market
4. From Sites of Memory to Memoryscape: Wisdom Sits in Place
5. A Sense of Time and a Sense of Place: The Past Is Not a Foreign Country