ABSTRACT
Design responses to a city’ s traumas draw upon the complex nature of remembering. Difficult memories heighten the complexity of the task, with conflicted impulses to erase, to heal, or to display these urban wounds. Sites of genocide, terrorism, and disaster pose challenges for design interventions, and landscape architecture draws upon a range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to anthropology, to inform decision making. The diversity of perspectives can be shaped into a taxonomy, offering a categorization of interventions, from oblivion, to healing and repair, curation and care, through to emphasis.
