TY - THES A1 - Elrasoul, Riham T1 - Designing Urban National Memory N2 - The study of memory, architecture, and urban space has been the interest ‎of ‎researchers ‎from the diverse fields around the world due to, the significance of dealing ‎with ‎memories ‎especially after the tragedy of the Second World War. Nations in Europe has chosen ‎not to ‎neglect ‎their past, moreover, overcoming it by strengthening the national identity. An ‎approach was clear in ‎the literature, art, further in the way of rebuilding their cities; that mainly ‎has reflected on the ‎value of urban spaces and their role in narrating the country’s national ‎memory. Thanks to this ‎approach, which has supported the post-war European nations to invite ‎to an act of ‎ forgiveness rather than to forget. ‎ On the contrary, memory, in relation to architecture is a form of knowledge has been ‎neglected in Egypt, especially during the previous decades after the declaration of independence ‎from the colonial power, and since 1952 revolution. Recently, a rising debate about Egypt ‎national history and the need to renationalize the Egyptian historical consciousness has rapidly ‎grown up, due to the political transformation has occurred because of the 25th uprising, 2011, ‎which unveiled the power of public spaces in constituting the nation thoughts, especially Tahrir ‎square.‎ At the same time, this has unveiled the results of neglecting the past instead of overcoming it; unveiled a present carries the danger of conflict and repeating previous mistakes. Researchers, historians, politicians, governmental organization, have ‎worked in the purpose of revisiting the historical information, and have tried to document the ‎current transformation of the 25th uprising. There was a public demand for redesigning Tahrir square to reflect the ‎memory of the uprising as a symbol of the power of the public. However, after eight years, those ‎memories have faded as if the 25th uprising has never happened. ‎ Those circumstances are very relevant to the gap between urban design and the art of ‎memory-work, in the scientific field. Few studies in Egypt conducted the concept of memory in ‎relation to urban spaces, however, the matter requires more attention, to associate the need for renationalizing Egypt ‎memory, with viewing urban space as a mean of narrating the country’s national memory and ‎reflecting the citizens' current thoughts, as a try of nearing the distances between ‎competing ‎narratives. Therefore, the research aims at developing a methodological framework that should ‎contribute to renationalizing memory through urban space. Further, benefiting from the German experience by investigating lessons to learn. That is based on the hypothesis that, although there is no fixed formula for all countries to renationalize the historical ‎consciousness of memory through urban spaces, lessons to be learned from Germany experience ‎could be a driving dimension when designing Egyptian urban spaces with a concept of memory ‎as an essential factor. To guide the validity of the study’s hypothesis, a set of research questions are thus ‎formulated: Starting from why memory is an essential factor when designing urban spaces? ‎Regarding Egypt national memory, how it was constituted through history and how to read its ‎representation on urban spaces? Also, the study quests the means of nationalizing memory ‎through urban spaces? And What are the learned lessons from the German experience?‎ The study tries to answer those questions. Via an inductive ‎analytical ‎methodology ‎which ‎moves from the gap of knowledge and from a particular situation ‎in Egypt, to study the German ‎experience in renationalizing the concept of memory through urban spaces.‎ ‎ Within the scope of the study, exploring Egypt prevailing narratives and the inherited ‎concepts which influenced the national memory is essential. Moreover, the research develops ‎analytical political psychosocial model that could help reading memories in urban spaces, ‎memory’s actors, and memory influences. To validate this model, case studies are analysed in ‎light of the concluded aspects. Consequently, the expected result is to infer broad general ‎learned ‎lessons for the Egyptian case. ‎ Research findings and conclusions answer the research questions, interpret literature ‎review, recommend some guide points to three target groups: first, practice field; to encourage ‎designers to value the national and collective memories when designing urban spaces. Second, to ‎ask policymakers to take the public participation into consideration, when taking decisions related to urban ‎development. Third, the thesis recommends future researches of urban memory that connect ‎theoretical information with the practice field. ‎ Finally, enhancing the memory-work in relation to the national narrative, conveying a meaningful message, when ‎designing urban spaces could encourage citizens to learn, to interact, and to dissolve boundaries ‎between the competing narratives in post-conflict societies.‎ KW - Erinnerung KW - Denkmal KW - Kulturerbe KW - Ägypten KW - Designing Urban National Memory KW - Reading Urban National Memory KW - Prevailing/ Competing Narratives KW - Post-Conflict society KW - Learned Lessons Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20191212-40489 ER - TY - THES A1 - Steiner, Marion T1 - Die chilenische Steckdose. Kleine Weltgeschichte der deutschen Elektrifizierung von Valparaíso und Santiago, 1880-1920 N2 - Am Beispiel der Elektrifizierung zweier Großstädte an der Westküste Südamerikas zeigt die Arbeit den globalen Einfluss deutscher Industrie- und Finanzakteure auf technische, städtebauliche und gesellschaftlich-kulturelle Entwicklungen zur Blütezeit des europäischen Imperialismus auf. Damit werden die Regionalgeschichten der chilenischen Hauptstadtregion und der Elektropolis Berlin zu einer Globalgeschichte miteinander verknüpft. Ein Hauptaugenmerk der Analyse liegt dabei auf den weltweiten Akteursnetzwerken und Machtverhältnissen sowie dem kulturellen Erbe und seiner gegenwärtigen Interpretation. N2 - Resumen. Tomando como ejemplo la electrificación de dos grandes ciudades en la costa oeste de Sudamérica, la tesis muestra la influencia global de actores industriales y financieros alemanes en el desarrollo técnico, urbano y sociocultural en el apogeo del imperialismo europeo. De esta manera, las historias regionales del centro urbano de Chile y la Electrópolis Berlín se unen para formar una historia global. El análisis se centra en las redes mundiales de actores y las relaciones de poder, así como en el patrimonio cultural y su interpretación actual. N2 - Abstract. Using the example of the electrification of two large cities on the South American west coast, the thesis shows the global influence of German industrial and financial actors on technical, urban and socio-cultural developments at the heyday of European imperialism. In this way, the regional histories of Chile’s capital region and the Elektropolis Berlin are linked to form a global history. The analysis focuses on the worldwide actor networks and power relations as well as on the cultural heritage and its current interpretation. KW - Weltgeschichte KW - Stadtforschung KW - Elektrifizierung KW - Infrastruktur KW - Kulturerbe KW - Globalgeschichte KW - Infrastrukturgeschichte KW - Valparaíso KW - Wirtschaftsimperialismus KW - Technikgeschichte KW - Industriekultur KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Elektropolis Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190517-39257 ER -