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[...]... shopping complex 31 32 Cities Full of Symbols Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:11 Pagina 32 Figure 4 General collective mental map of Colombo based on 32 individual drawings 2 Emotion in the Symbolic Spectrum of Colombo, Sri Lanka Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:11 Pagina 33 Figure 5 Collective mental map of Colombo based on 18 individual drawings of persons not related... boards of shops, shop and street names or house numbers are also used for referenc- ing Many respondents do not remember road names but refer to descriptions of partic- 29 30 Cities Full of Symbols Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:11 Pagina 30 Figure 2 A clustered/emotional mental map expressing content 2 Emotion in the Symbolic Spectrum of Colombo, Sri Lanka Cities ful of Symbols. .. and the fate of a destructed city bearing the scars of the twentieth century’s atrocities as well as the Cities Full of Symbols energy and ideas of reconstruction render this contribution an intricate story of urban symbolism and planning The contribution of Lars Bakker on Buenos Aires (Chapter 6) exposes the basic symbolic pattern of the capital of Argentina, which is set in the layout of the city... Variety of Symbols Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:10 Pagina 15 etta in Egypt, as part of the Fifth Crusade, the Haarlem crusaders made use of a large saw attached to the keel of their ship to cut the enormous chain, which closed off the harFigure 3 The model ships in the St Bavo Church, Haarlem, the Netherlands bor of Damietta This historical act of courage allowed the formation of a... rank of modern mega -cities Hans-Dieter Evers con- cludes that in Jakarta virtual symbolism has come to an end and will be replaced by new symbolisms also characteristic for other world cities In Chapter 10, Pierpaolo De Giosa takes the concept of the iconic city as a point of Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:11 Pagina 23 departure and compares the symbolism of the Javanese cities of. .. Spectrum of Colombo, Sri Lanka Introduction1 The cultural character of a city is expressed in a layer of rituals and symbols (Nas, 1993; Nas, Jaffe and Samuels, 2006) The focus of this essay is on the symbolic spectrum of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, and is based on the different views of its population Sri Lanka’s lively history is the crux for a great variety of symbols, as many relics of the... studies of cities have played a decisive role in the development of the theory on urban symbolism To a more limited extent, more comparative studies of cities as well as research on elements in cities have had their influence In this volume all three types of studies are present First, in the seven contributions of Chapters 2 to 8, we present a number of holistic case studies on the cities of Colombo,... Iconic symbolism: Kevelaer and Memphis4 Cities may derive their reputation from a certain person or a group of persons and this iconic symbolism may be sacral or profane in nature The German town of Kevelaer is a 1 Introduction – Variety of Symbols Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:10 Pagina 13 nice example of a sacral iconic city With a population of 27,928 in 2004, it is a Catholic pil-... indicate the role of this fear and other feelings that are present in Colombo These kinds of emotional symbolism are shown in Cities Full of Symbols some of the mental maps drawn by informants, as well as in some poems and songs In this essay on urban symbolism, the emic view of Colombo’s population is ex- plored Mental mapping as a technique of data collection is introduced and descriptions of Colombo’s... we in´ Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:10 Pagina 20 clude two articles of a more comparative nature on Indonesian cities in general and on two pilgrimage cities in Indonesia in particular In Chapters 11 to 14, these are followed by four contributions focusing on parts of cities, such as an element of nature, a building, a statue and a neighborhood In Chapter 15, the conclusion of this . y0 w1 h1" alt="" Cities Full of Symbols Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:10 Pagina 1 Cities Full of Symbols A Theory of Urban Space and Culture Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout. Introduction – Variety of Symbols Figure 2. The Chapel of Grace (Photograph: Peter J.M. Nas, 2005) Cities ful of Symbols Boek 2_Layout 2 21-10-11 12:10 Pagina 13 14 Cities Full of Symbols trated. After. Rituals and Symbols (Nas, 1998), Urban Symbolism and Rituals (Jez- ernik, 1999), Hypercity: The Symbolic Side of Urbanism (Nas and Samuels, 2006), and a Cities Full of Symbols 8 Cities ful of Symbols