Postmodern Çağda Batılı Şehir ve Hafızası/Western City and Urban Memory in the Postmodern Age

Abstract

Nowadays, local/regional history of the city which constitutes the memory of it, dynamic verbal reminiscences about its prominent figures and characters, its original local arts and micro-architecture, urban literature sticking every street in its memory by scanning each of them, its folklore that protects the original of the town and local policies enabling micro-municipality come to the forefront. Post-urbanism, reflecting the concept of post-modern city points out to human beings with exalted identity, to a city with localness containing collective subjectivity and to the limits of belonging to a place with micron scales. If protecting the historical contexture and memory of the city as it is, is a modern concept; having critical perspectives to develop it with tools such as inspiration and intuition, and to update and elaborate it in accordance with the necessities of the age could be a postmodern one.

Keywords

• modernism
• postmodernism
• posturbanism
• urban memory