The City as a Cyborg: Influence of Digital Technologies on Architecture and on Cities

Metropolitan regions with emerging vast agglomerations constitute a seemingly insurmountable challenge to urban design and regional planning. We diagnose decentralization, suburbanization, and urban sprawl. New methods need to be developed. Digital information technologies are challenging established understandings of the city. New, fictitious realities as immaterial, dynamic communication systems supply and compete with the “direct” reality of built architecture. We are aiming at the connected, intelligent house, a machine or a cyborg in a global network. In this new mobility the interactive house could become the cover of worlds without places – to the place of all places. Cities will become to be centerless huge megacities, along with a loss of their old center functions. New virtual – not really functional justified – centers will be established.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.64

Volume Editors
John K. Edwards