Embodied Memories and the Space of Trauma. Metamorphoses of urban topographies in (post)communist Bucharest — the case of the Civic Center

This paper attempts to explore the theme of memory in its relation to the embodiment of ideology, in order to investigate the symbolic understandings of the architectural and urban metamorphoses affecting the communist and post-communist city of Bucharest. It seeks to explore how such understandings affected the reshaping of national identity under communism and after its fall in 1989