CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication - Hardcover

Boyer, Christine M.

 
9781568980485: CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1568980485 ISBN 13: 9781568980485
Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Noted urban historian M. Christine Boyer turns to the new frontier - cybercities - in this important and compelling new book. Boyer argues that the computer is to contemporary society what the machine was to modernism, and that this new metaphor profoundly affects the way we think, imagine, and ultimately grasp reality. But there is, she believes, an inherent danger here: that as cyberspace pulls us into its electronic grasp, we withdraw from the world. Transferred, plugged in, and down-loaded, reality becomes increasingly immaterial. Frozen to one side of our terminal's screen, Boyer concludes, we risk becoming incapable of action in a real city plagued by crime, hatred, disease, unemployment, and under-education.

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Verlag
Princeton Architectural Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1568980485
ISBN 13 
9781568980485
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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