Media and urban space [electronic resource] : understanding, investigating and approaching mediacity / Frank Eckardt (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eckardt, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Congresses.

City planning.

Communication in city planning--Congresses.

Communication in city planning.

Cities and towns in mass media--Congresses.

Cities and towns in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Frank & Timme, 2008.

Berlin Frank & Timme 2013

Language Note:

English

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.

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'.

Contents:

""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""

""The Problem of “Expert Interpretative Vacuum� in Media Discourses � Discourse Analysis of Texts on Ljubljana Urbanism""""The 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""

""Let�s Build a Wall� and Create a Monster! Using the Media in Re-presenting Urban Image""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86596-921-6

OCLC:

923692060