Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. In contrast to traditional medical conceptions of the disorder, Kathryn Milun shows that this anxiety is closely related to the emergence of ""empty ur…
"Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia in modern life and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. The fear of stepping into the anonymity of modern cities and the anxiety that modern urban settings generate is in fact a central featu…
"Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences - traffic jams, noisy neighbours, pollution, food scares - but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely, Hubbub shows in vivid detail. Focusing on offences to the eyes, ears, noses, taste…
Ambient television: visual culture and public space
Ambient television: visual culture and public space
Examines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium and how that differs from the normal assumptions of domestic viewing space.
Ambient television: visual culture and public space
Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laudromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms…
Welke straten werken wel en welke niet en waarom en hoe ontwerp je straten waar mensen graag vertoeven.
In Cybering Democracy, Diana Saco boldly reconceptualizes the relationship between democratic participation and spatial realities both actual and virtual. She argues that cyberspace must be viewed as a produced social space, one that fruitfully confounds the ordering conventions…
