CYBERCITIES VISUAL PERCEPTION IN THE AGE OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

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 ulti...

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Main Author: Boyer, M. Christine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS 1996
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