Benjamin Fraser

Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disciplinary frictions still condition the potential of digital projects, the nature of the urban phenomenon pushes us toward an interdisciplinary and digital future where the primacy of cities is assured.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137524553
• Artikelnr.: 45972987

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Fraser is Professor and Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

PART I: LAYERS OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CITY
1. What is the City?
2. Art and the Urban Experience

PART II: DISCIPLINARY/DIGITAL DEBATES AND THE URBAN PHENOMENON
3. The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the Digital Sciences
4. What is Urban Totality?

PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF DIGITAL CITIES
5. What are Digital Cities?
6. Thick Mapping as Urban Metaphor

Epilogue: Bridged Cities (A Calvino-esque Tale)