@article{686222,
      recid = {686222},
      author = {Nas, P.},
      title = {Cities full of symbols a theory of urban space and culture  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Leiden University Press,},
      address = {Leiden, The Netherlands :},
      pages = {303 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Cities are full of symbols that bear the meanings that  together constitute urban culture. These interdisciplinary  case studies, from Yogyakarta to Leiden and from Buenos  Aires to New York, employ urban symbolism theory and a  focus on such symbols as the city's layout, statues, street  names and popular culture. This book examines design  proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on  New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore  by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol  of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch  colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis's  Graceland in Memphis. 'Cities Full of Symbols' develops  urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new  perspective on social cohesion. Approaches of architects,  anthropologists, sociologists, social geographers and  historians converge to make this a book for anyone  interested in urban life, policymaking and city  branding.--Cover.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/686222},
}