City Museums and City Development

by Geoffrey Edwards, Robert R. Macdonald, MacDonald/McIntyre/Jones (Eds), et al.

Book Overview

Traditionally, city museums have been keepers of city history. Many have been exercises in nostalgia, reflecting city pride. However, a new generation of museums focuses increasingly 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759111812
• ISBN13: 9780759111813
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"