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The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space

Scott McQuire
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The Uncanny Home as mentioned in this paper is a collection of articles about the state of the art in public and private spaces in the media city of the United States, focusing on public spaces: street, lights, and screens.
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Introduction The Uncanny Home PART ONE: THRESHOLDS OF THE MEDIA CITY The Territory of Images The City in Fragments Liquid Cities PART TWO: PUBLIC SPACE: STREETS, LIGHTS AND SCREENS Electropolis Performing Public Space PART THREE: PRIVATE SPACE: FROM GLASS ARCHITECTURE TO BIG BROTHER The Glass House The Digital Home Conclusion

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The relational space: designing new urban hinges in suspended edge places

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a tentative strategy for designing spaces which reveal themselves as relational, choral, shared, participated, gains new meanings and renovated urgencies under the changing conditions of contemporary architectures, landscapes and cities.
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Alternative Readings of Labourer’s Love: The Shakespearean, Pan-Laborist, and Technological Uncanny

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that with the hidden functioning of technical media like lighting and noise, the film has transcended the superficial laborer/non-laborer narrative and created a craftsman/technology discourse, and the established spatial-temporal relations were annihilated and the film generated an experience of technological uncanny.
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Ser-na-cidade: uma aproximação fenomenológica da experiência tecnológica / Being-in-the-city: a phenomenological approach to technological experience

Jason Wasiak
TL;DR: In this article, an artigo examina a dinâmica acerca da negociacao e articulacao da relacao corpo-tecnologia caracterizando necessariamente a experiencia de ser-na-cidade.
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Transformaton of urban spaces into information age

TL;DR: The importance of the appearance of media units in the structure of the city was noted in this article , where the authors analyzed the phased development of means of artistic expressiveness in digital format.