Seeing the City Digitally

Abstract

The argument that many cities are now digitally mediated is an increasingly familiar one.The social, experiential and physical spaces of a city are more and more often designed, defined, navigated and experienced with digital data shared with platforms.But from its app icon to its interface to its advertising campaigns, every platform deploys a wide range of imagery, and most successful social media platforms are based on sharing images.This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualized are digital.The introduction explores how the processuality of digital images, and their near-ubiquitous circulation, are reconfiguring the spatial and temporal organization of urban life.

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