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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b7510098.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "245 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1568980485 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Princeton Architectural Press,".
- catalog subject "720/.1/05 20".
- catalog subject "Computers and civilization.".
- catalog subject "QA76.9.C66 B69 1995".
- catalog subject "QA76.9.C66 B69 1996".
- catalog subject "Telecommunication.".
- catalog subject "Virtual reality.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "CyberCities : visual perception in the age of electronic communication / M. Christine Boyer.".
- catalog type "text".