Urban identity and memory. Remembering and forgetting, continuities and discontinuities in the city

Abstract

The symbolic dimensions of urban life, that include matters concerning culture and identity, have been absent when reflecting upon the city. There are many ways to approach the problems concerning the 'construction of identity' in an urban context. In this paper the built heritage is presented not only as a 'place of memory', also it is a fixed phenomenon that allow us to look at symbolic relations that the people establish with their space, thus dubbing their memory as something sacred and representing their identity.