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The city as interface : how new media are changing the city / Martijn de Waal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reflect (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; #10.Rotterdam , Nai010 Publishers: 2014Description: 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789462080508 (pbk.)
  • 946208050X (pbk.)
  • 9789462080768 (eBook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 711 WAA 23  008588
LOC classification:
  • HM851 .W33 2014
  • NA9000-9284
Summary: Digital and mobile media play an increasingly important role in everyday urban life. They are changing the way urban life takes shape and how we experience our built environment. This seems a mainly practical matter: thanks to these technologies we can organize our lives more conveniently. But the rise of these 'urban media' also presents us with an important philosophical issue: What do they mean for how the city functions as a community? Employing detailed examples of new media uses as well as historical case studies, Martijn de Waal shows how new technologies, on one level, contribute to the further individualization and liberalization of urban society. There is an alternative future scenario, however, in which digital media construct a new definition of the urban public sphere. In the process they also breathe new life into the classical republican ideal of the city as an open, democratic 'community of strangers'.--Back cover.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 711 WAA 008588 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 008588

Originally published in Dutch as: De stad als interface.

Subtitle on cover: How new media are changing the city.

Digital and mobile media play an increasingly important role in everyday urban life. They are changing the way urban life takes shape and how we experience our built environment. This seems a mainly practical matter: thanks to these technologies we can organize our lives more conveniently. But the rise of these 'urban media' also presents us with an important philosophical issue: What do they mean for how the city functions as a community? Employing detailed examples of new media uses as well as historical case studies, Martijn de Waal shows how new technologies, on one level, contribute to the further individualization and liberalization of urban society. There is an alternative future scenario, however, in which digital media construct a new definition of the urban public sphere. In the process they also breathe new life into the classical republican ideal of the city as an open, democratic 'community of strangers'.--Back cover.

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