CyberCities
Subtitle: visual perception in the age of electronic communication
By: M. Christine Boyer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Computers and civilization; Telecommunication; Virtual reality
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.

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.