Cemetery is dead. Rest in peace.
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/3255Keywords:
cemetery, attraction, repulsion, urban location, design cemetery, new cemetery, the concept of the cemeteryAbstract
The common imaginary of a cemetery directly derives from the nineteenth century model which stood for many years at the origin of contemporary cemeteries.
Does designing cemeteries still make sense today, in an increasing virtual or digital society, where the memory is less and less tied to the place of burial and where the napoleonic laws do not corespond anymore to the technological vision of the world in which we live?
It’s time to start rethinking the very concept of cemetery as a place enclosed in a fence. That cemeteries are bying is a fact. Their decomposition has already begun inside metropolis, and even if it may be still unthinkable, it will soon become unavoidable and sooner or later an evidence.
So, it seems that we have to accept this: the cemetery is dead. Rest in peace.
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