The Urban Incubator
Subtitle: (Re)(de)constructing  the  City of  Fragments
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing; LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Saarbrucken, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9783846522325
Description: Postmodern urbanism is experiencing a new urbanity where boundaries between reality and virtuality are blurring, with fragmented multi-layered spatiality unraveling sequential images and signs through time-space compression. Viewing the postmodern city through a deconstructive lens it is possible to see multiple representations of public spaces in terms of digital collages, diagrams and screens, interwoven into real urban life, thus symbiotically celebrating the new informational needs of our media–polis. This creates a 'transnational urban experience' wherein the global and local, the real and the virtual become inextricably intertwined, as the ideal of boundless and undefined spatiality predominates a digital age of fragmented postmodernity. Digital fragments and diagrams will bring cit(y)(ies) images into sharp juxtaposition, thus de-solidifying the physical and dissolving spatial distinctions between the virtual urbanity of the information machine and the actual urbanity of the city of fragments. This will call into play the possibility of a coterminous and dialectic merging of very real city of bricks and a conceptually experienced city of pixels.
Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: List of Boxes; title: Preface; title: CHAPTER ONE : Postmodern Spatiality and Place Identity; title: CHAPTER TWO:  Postmodern Spatial Metaphors; title: Text and Collage; title: Urban Semiotics and Space-Time Compression; title: Images and Signs; title: Heterotopias and the Flâneur; title: CHAPTER THREE : Virtuality and the Space of Flows; title: The Spaces of Flows; title: Architecture of Images and Cyberspaces; title: Non-Places and Digital Flows; title: CHAPTER FOUR: Deconstruction and the Urban Experience; title: Reading of  Postmodern Urban Spaces; title: The Rise of Deconstruction; title: Architecture of Disjunction; title: Visionary Deconstructivism; title: Methods of Spatial Representation; title: Urban Fragments and Virtual Layers; title: Techniques of Spatial Representation; title: Diagrams and Fractal Geometry; title: CHAPTER FIVE : The Deconstructive Experiment; title: The  Deconstructive Procedure; title: The Urban Incubator and Diagrammatic  Techniques; title: The Experiment-  the City of  Fragments, Flows and  Pixels; title: Collages of  the City of Fragments; title: Urban Screens within the City of Pixels; title: Urban Semiotics of the Nocturnal City; title: Urban Diagrams between Reality and Virtuality; title: Urban Narratives  within the City of Flows; title: Urban Installations within Public Spaces; title: Perceptions of  Virtuality; title: CHAPTER SIX: The Future of Urban Experience; title: Experimentation with Deconstructive Urbanism; title: Cognitive Imaging and the Notion of Being; title: Urban Future between Virtuality and Reality; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY; title: END NOTES