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[Reading Response] Imaginary CyberCities

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Reading M. Christine Boyer’s text, “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities,” introduced me to some new perspectives on our future in modern cities. Here, I want to share my feelings about the concept of “CyberCities” and the imagination of future individuals. Boyer uses the term “CyberCities” to describe the blending of virtual and physical spaces, where the traditional understanding of geography is disrupted by digital networks. We should note that the article was written in 1992, when social media had not yet gone viral around the world. It seems that Boyer assumed that what social media would bring to people

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[Reading Response 2] Imagining Urban Futures Ho Tsz Hei

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In the reading, author Carl Abbott mentioned world of science fiction, which idea of imagining urban futures that defy our current understanding of cities.The reading presents with James Blish’s “Cities in Flight” and Stephen Baxter’s “Flood”,which are unique and captivating portrayals of mobile cities, challenging the conventional notion of traditional stationary urban centers.   How do these cities function? What are the gains and losses associated with their mobility?I think these ideas are good that challenge our preconceived notions of urbanity by exploring the possibilities of mobile cities. By examining the dynamics of these moving communities, we are prompted to

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[Reading Response 2] – The Imaginary Real World of Cyber-Cities

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“Lag-Time Places” capture the fundamental nature of urban environments that are frequently disregarded in accounts of urban progress. These entities symbolize not only spatial voids, but also temporal disruptions, in which the progression of time appears to halt. These neglected regions are akin to misplaced puzzle pieces, estranged from the overarching blueprint of the urban environment, and abandoned to rot in the dark.It brings to mind a specific alleyway in my birthplace when I consider this notion. Nestled amidst edificing structures, this area appears to be eerily isolated from the swift urbanization that encircles it. Idnocuous to developers and pedestrians

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[Reading Response 2] Migratory Cities

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I think when the cities can move, they are not ‘city’ anymore. Instead, they should be called transportation tools. There are many transportation can move people from place to place while they can work, entertain, and live on machines such as aircraft carriers, trains, airships, and rockets. Similar stories can be told by changing the ‘city’ to other carriers such as pirate ships, then the story becomes “One Piece”, stronger pirates engulf weaker pirates. The main character trying to defect the strong pirates to get treasure. In the idea of moving to a residential place, I think of the vehicle

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[Reading Response 2] The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities

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Ez Kim 3036030788 I like this analogy to the machine city: for disciplinary control proceeds by distributing bodies/uses in space, allocating each individuals to a cellular partition, and creating an efficient machine out of its analytical spatial arrangement. I thought that this analogy of machine city is similar to the feeling that I got from being in Hong Kong. Poeple work in a small partition, from 9 to 6, and goes to home using MTR, which is very crowded but the trains come in a very discipline time table. People go to a very small, cellular home, and sleep and

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[Reading Response 2] Imagining Urban Futures By Carl Abbott

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3036228385 Cheung Chun Yu In most of the movies, cities are always described as a moveable space. The cities in these films look like robots or a massive public transport system, for example trains, ships, fleets. Cities are moving to search for the best living place and the most resources for people to live. Besides, some cities are built outside the Earth. In some movies, the Earth is already not a great planet for people to live on. It lacks resources and suitable places for people to live.   Another characteristic of the future city is that it is well

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[Reading Response] The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities by M. Christine Boyer

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Cybercities, a hybrid of physical and virtual space, are discussed by the author in “The Imaginary Real World of Cybercities”. Having a glimpse of the whole world, we may marvel at the fact that technology has been evolving in a rapid way. People are exposed to this digital era, and are more and more familiar with the concept of Cybercities. In this article, the author explores how digital technologies affect people’s perception of time and space and presents the challenges and opportunities for architectural design and social issues as well as urban planning under the context of Cybercities. The article

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[Reading Response] M. Christine Boyer: “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities”

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    In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape that we live in,  significant aspects of our identity reflect upon our connections and experiences within our community-buildings. In her article “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities,” written by M. Christine Boyer, she explores how these technologies transform our understanding of identity, raising concerns about potential losses of identity and how a place turns into placelessness. Traditionally,  our sense of belonging is deeply rooted within the environment through historical, cultural, and personal interactions. However, virtually, the perception of a place becomes abstract, diminishing its tangible authenticity.      Boyer mentions the key

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[Reading Response] M. Christine Boyer: “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities”

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Nowadays, social media platforms have become an essential part of our lives and can be used as synonyms to describe our identity. Therefore, the book “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities” Author by M. Christine Boyer can help us to know how these phenomena change our understanding to the real world and the imaginary worlds. From the book, Boyer mainly explores how movies and media influence our views on life and the world. Boyer also defined “CyberCities” as a virtual space within computer networks, she explained how CyberCities blurs the boundaries between physical and virtual reality, and how CyberCities provide

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[Reading Response]: The Imaginary Real World of Cybercities by M. Christine Boyer

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This article discusses the impact that the emergence of the concept of the cybercity, which links architectural theory to the computer-constructed information matrix, will have on postmodern architectural theory. The profound change from the modern to the postmodern, from the machine age to the information age, will undoubtedly bring about a profound change in architectural philosophy. If modernist architecture is a tool for regulating the space of human social life and activity in the machine age, an analytical space oriented towards efficiency and discipline, then the cybercity may influence the development of postmodern architecture in a direction that is even

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