An edition of CyberCities (1996)

CyberCities

visual perception in the age of electronic communication

1st ed.
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An edition of CyberCities (1996)

CyberCities

visual perception in the age of electronic communication

1st ed.
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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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English
Pages
245

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Cover of: CyberCities
CyberCities: visual perception in the age of electronic communication
1996, Princeton Architectural Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720/.1/05
Library of Congress
QA76.9.C66 B69 1996, QA76.9.C66 B69 1995, QA76.9.C66B69 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
245 p. :
Number of pages
245

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL793147M
Internet Archive
cybercities00boye
ISBN 10
1568980485
LCCN
95025746
OCLC/WorldCat
33276867
Library Thing
426061
Goodreads
328305

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