For too long information and communications technologies have been lazily portrayed as means to simply escape into a parallel world -- to withdraw from the body, or the city, in some utopian, or dystopian, stampede on-line. Such perspectives deny the fact that the so-called 'information society' is also an increasingly urban society. They ignore the ways in which new technologies now mediate every dimension of the fabric of everyday urban life. And they tend to obscure a key question: how do the multifaceted realities of city regions interrelate in practice with new technologies in different...
For too long information and communications technologies have been lazily portrayed as means to simply escape into a parallel world -- to withdraw fro...
Cities are both products of culture, and sites where culture is made and received. By presenting the very best of classic and contemporary writing on the culture of cities, The City Cultures Reader provides an accessible overview of the diverse material on the interface between cities and culture. The extensively revised and updated second edition of The City Cultures Reader now features fifty generous writings (of which thirty-eight are new) organised into ten parts which explore themes such as: what is a city?; what is culture?; symbolic economies; the culture industry; culture and...
Cities are both products of culture, and sites where culture is made and received. By presenting the very best of classic and contemporary writing on ...
