Métropolitain, Urban Memory and… Urbicide? Or, what the loss of art nouveau métro stations can warn us about the erosion of cultural sustainability

Architecture imbues meaning. But at what point do we decide “that style’s no good any more?" Should we do more to preserve our architectural legacies?
#paris #hectorguimard #metropolitain #urbanmemory #culturalsustainability #urbicide #artnouveau
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Hyderabad Echoes In A Conversation Between Anthropologist And Historian She unexpectedly raised another topic: as to how, as a fiction writer, I converse with buildings. This was my favourite subject

Why do old buildings in Hyderabad matter? Because they hold stories deeper than bricks—stories of memory and belonging.
By Zaffar Junejo

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#HyderabadHeritage #UrbanMemory #ArchitecturalHistory #NarrativeMedicine #CulturalPreservation #PostPartitionVoices

Pop Goes the Helms
#popart #contemporaryart #digitalart #vintagephotography #midcenturymodern #losangelesart #artcollectors #foundimagery #americanaart #moderniconography #artgalleries #urbanmemory #helmsbakery #laartcollector #artscene2025 #visualculture #neonnostalgia #historicla #boldcomposition

'We planted trees among the rubble': The dark WW2 history written into Germany's parks Eighty years after the end of World War Two, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime bombardment and Nazi terror.

"80 years after the end of WWII, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime bombardment and Nazi terror." On urban parks, fascism and everyday collaborators, #UrbanForests #UrbanMemory #UrbanReconciliation #BBCEarth www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...