| Description |
1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations |
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Content -- Media and Urban Space -- Urban Public Spaces in the Augmented City -- Transformation â?? City Morphing -- Understanding the Information Society: The Potentials of Phenomenological Approach -- The Public Building as a Media â?? Towards a Method -- Wal-Martians: Wal-Martâ€?s Servo-Organism -- Images of office architecture in the media â€? the paradigm of urban competitiveness and global interconnectivity -- Lisbon: towards suprametropolis |
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The Problem of “Expert Interpretative Vacuum� in Media Discourses � Discourse Analysis of Texts on Ljubljana UrbanismThe role of contemporary media in creating an identity for a post-socialist city district: The case of Nowa Huta -- Motion Path1 -- In Hoc Signo Vinces1. Eurosigns in the City Scenery of Brussels -- RV Urbanism -- Real-Time Sonic Texture � an interior design concept -- Virtual Models for City Design -- Hybrid Space / Soft Urbanism -- Medial Architecture, or a Battle-Rap on reality-production by means of electronic media facades |
| Summary |
Long description: New information and communication techniques have significant influences on urban life. In this book, international and interdisciplinary research, projects and considerations about the emerging 'Mediacity' are presented. Contributions from scientists, artists, and architects from 14 different countries are analyzing, researching and creatively approaching the cultural, social, political, and economical phenomena of the encounter between media and urban space |
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Biographical note: Frank Eckardt is professor for 'Sociology of Globalization' at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. He holds a PhD in Political Science. His main field of research is urban studies. Since 2004, he ist the coordinator of the research project 'Mediacity' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
City planning -- Congresses
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Communication in city planning -- Congresses
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Cities and towns in mass media -- Congresses
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Cities and towns in mass media
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City planning
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Communication in city planning
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eckardt, Frank
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| LC no. |
2008374550 |
| ISBN |
9783865969217 |
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3865969216 |
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