Title:	On LocationHeritage Cities and Sites
Authors:	Ruggles, D. Fairchild
Keywords:	Heritage Cities
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	A recent exhibition at the New Museum sharply rebukes preservation movements for transforming lively and inhabited, albeit gritty, urban environments into bland precincts for touristic observation and consumption. “Cronocaos” (2010 at the Venice Biennale, and restaged at the New Museum in New York in 2011) makes this point through its contrast between visibly “preserved” clean spaces and intact fabric, starting with the exhibition’s awning, where the name “Cronocaos” is splashed across an existing and still legible sign for the former restaurant supply store where the show is installed (Ouroussoff 2011 ) . Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu, the exhibition does not take issue with transformation per se so much as how the contemporary “obsession with heritage is creating an artifi cial re-engineered version of our memory” (New Museum 2011 ) in which unsightly and insalubrious heritage together with historically important but no longer valued architectural works from the 1960s and 1970s are all expunged by preservation’s merciless sanitation process.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/15455
ISBN:	978-1-4614-1108-6
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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