[Reading Response] The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities by M. Christine Boyer
The article delves into the intersection of technology, urban design, and postmodernism within the context of virtual cities. It showed us that contemporary culture is saturated with manipulated signs and imagery, challenging traditional notions of artifice and reality, which are often deconstructed rather than duplicated. It also revealed the transformation from the Machine City of modernism to the Informational City of postmodernism within the context of CyberCities. This transformation displaces traditional Western spatial and temporal principles associated with the Machine City, such as roads, buildings, and machines, into the spreadsheets, matrices, and networks of the Informational City. The Informational City
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