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The media city : media, architecture and urban space / Scott McQuire

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage, 2008Description: x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780857025371
  • 1412907934
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HT119 MCQ .M374 2008
Contents:
Introduction: The Uncanny Home -- pt. 1. Thresholds of the Media City -- Territory of Images -- City in Fragments -- Liquid Cities -- pt. 2. Public Space: Streets, Lights and Screens -- Electropolis -- Performing Public Space -- pt. 3. Private Space: From Glass Architecture to Big Brother -- Glass House -- Digital Home -- Conclusion
Review: "This book argues that the redefinition of urban space by mobile, instantaneous and pervasive media is producing a distinctive mode of social experience. Media are no longer separate from the city." "Instead the proliferation of spatialized media platforms has produced a media-architecture complex - the media city. Offering critical and historical analysis at the deepest levels, The Media City links the formation of the modern city to the development of modern image technologies and outlines a new genealogy for assessing contemporary developments such as digital networks and digital architecture, web cams and public screens, surveillance society and reality television."--Jacket
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Open Shelf Books Open Shelf Books Main Library -University of Zimbabwe Main Library Stack Room 2 Open Shelf HT119 MCQ .M374 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 36010007028

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index

Introduction: The Uncanny Home -- pt. 1. Thresholds of the Media City -- Territory of Images -- City in Fragments -- Liquid Cities -- pt. 2. Public Space: Streets, Lights and Screens -- Electropolis -- Performing Public Space -- pt. 3. Private Space: From Glass Architecture to Big Brother -- Glass House -- Digital Home -- Conclusion

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"This book argues that the redefinition of urban space by mobile, instantaneous and pervasive media is producing a distinctive mode of social experience. Media are no longer separate from the city." "Instead the proliferation of spatialized media platforms has produced a media-architecture complex - the media city. Offering critical and historical analysis at the deepest levels, The Media City links the formation of the modern city to the development of modern image technologies and outlines a new genealogy for assessing contemporary developments such as digital networks and digital architecture, web cams and public screens, surveillance society and reality television."--Jacket

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