City Museums and City Development

by Jones, Ian; Macdonald, Robert R.; McIntyre, Darryl; Bourbeau, Marie Louise; Butler-Bowden, Caroline; Chang, Szu-yun; Chu, Chi-jung; Dauschek, Anja; Edwards, Geoffrey; Hebditch, Max; Hunt, Susan; Lohman, Jack; Mouliou, Marlen; Nazipova, Gulchachak Rakhimzy

• ISBN13: 9780759111813
• ISBN10: 0759111812
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-16
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

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 increasingly focuses 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.

Author Biography

Ian Jones is secretary of CAMOC (Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities), one of the international committees forming part of the International Council of Museums. Robert R. Macdonald is direction emeritus of the Museum of the City of New York, where he previously served as CEO for seventeen years. Darryl McIntyre, formerly group director for public programs at the Museum of London, is CEO of the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Cities and Museums about Them	p. 1
City Museums and the Geopolitics of Globalization	p. 16
Museums of Cities and the Future of Cities	p. 27
"The Novelties of the Town": Museums, Cities, arid Historical Representation	p. 40
The Prospect of a City Museum	p. 60
Thinking the Present Historically at the Museum of Sydney	p. 75
A City Museum for Stuttgart: Some Issues in Planning a Museum for the Twenty-First Century	p. 90
Taipei City Museum in the Making	p. 99
Museums and Urban Renewal in Towns	p. 114
The Development of the City of Kazan: The Museum Aspect	p. 129
Defining a Research Agenda for City Museums in a Peripheralizing World	p. 136
From Urban Blocks to City Blogs: Defining Attributes for the City Museum of Today	p. 155
Index	p. 181
About the Contributors	p. 185
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