1996, ISBN: 1568980485

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[SC: 41.96], [PU: New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996], Jacket, Boyer, M. Christine, 1939-. CyberCities: visual perception in the age of electronic communication. New York: Prin… Mehr…

[SC: 41.96], [PU: New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996], Jacket, Boyer, M. Christine, 1939-. CyberCities: visual perception in the age of electronic communication. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, 1st printing number line 4321, 245pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, fresh attractive copy. Cyber Cities. - 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. - CONTENTS: The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities -- Labyrinths of the Mind and the City -- Real and Virtual -- Disenchantment of the City: An Improbable Dialogue between Bodies, Machines, and Urban Form -- Imaging the City in the Age of Electronic Communication -- Electronic Disruptions and Black Holes of the City: The Issues of Gender and Urbanism in the Age of Electronic Communication. 9781568980485 ISBN 1568980485<

1996, ISBN: 1568980485

Gebundene Ausgabe

[SC: 69.99], [PU: New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996], Jacket, Boyer, M. Christine, 1939-. CyberCities: visual perception in the age of electronic communication. New York: Prin… Mehr…

[SC: 69.99], [PU: New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996], Jacket, Boyer, M. Christine, 1939-. CyberCities: visual perception in the age of electronic communication. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, 1st printing number line 4321, 245pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, fresh attractive copy. Cyber Cities. - 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. - CONTENTS: The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities -- Labyrinths of the Mind and the City -- Real and Virtual -- Disenchantment of the City: An Improbable Dialogue between Bodies, Machines, and Urban Form -- Imaging the City in the Age of Electronic Communication -- Electronic Disruptions and Black Holes of the City: The Issues of Gender and Urbanism in the Age of Electronic Communication. 9781568980485 ISBN 1568980485<

ISBN: 9781568980485

In these polemical essays, urban historian M. Christine Boyer argues that the computer is to contemporary society what the machine was to modernism, and that this metaphor profoundly affe… Mehr…

In these polemical essays, urban historian M. Christine Boyer argues that the computer is to contemporary society what the machine was to modernism, and that this metaphor profoundly affects the way we ultimately grasp reality. But there is, she believes, an inherent danger here: as cyberspace pulls us into its electronic grasp, we withdraw from the world and risk becoming incapable of action in a real city plagued by crime, hatred, disease, unemployment, and under-education. Boyer examines cyberspace, virtual reality, disembodiment, and cyborgs, drawing on a wide range of sources from Walter Benjamin to William Gibson. In the end, she issues a clarion call to reinstate a social agenda in the midst of these technological innovations."CyberCities is a provocative new book of essays in which Boyer stands against the outpouring of enthusiasm over our predigested, reconfigured, digital world". -- Public Art Review Media > Book<