the smooth and carved spaces
"There are no metaphors" (Gilles Deleuze +)
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- Digital City Amsterdam *
- A test bed for the electronic highway (info)
- Vereniging Digitale Steden Nederland *
- Vereniging van Digitale steden en dorpen in Nederland i.o. (DSDN)
- it
- La Citta Multiethnica, Bologna*
- Immigrazione straniera in Italia (Immigration in Italy), map
- La Citta` Invisibile*
- "D'una città non godi le sette o settantasette meraviglie, ma la risposta che dà
ad una tua domanda."- Italo Calvino
- Milione, Venice
- Milione is also the title of Marco Polo's great travel book - a Venetian's metaphore for the marvellous
- discovery of different, far away and often surprising.worlds. Thus Milione is the name we propose for a computerized civic network
- [commercial version]
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- Internationale Stadt Berlin *
- Within this project, we try to install: the construction of a decentralized, publicly accessible archive, documentation
and bi-directional media area (description)
- Internationale Stadt Bremen *
- "Es kommt bei dieser Architektur nicht auf die Materie an, sondern auf die Organisationsform." (Leonardo Mosso, Turin
1969 - die programmierte Stadt)
- Internationale Stadt Koeln *
- Das Internetmagazin aus Köln am Rhein
- Telepolis HomePage *
- Exhibition and Symposium on the Interactive and Networked City, Luxemburg, 3.11. - 12.11.1995
- (archive)
- traces of a constructed city - Mark Tribe
- This web site, which will remain under construction for its online duration, isa visual archive of physical construction sites in central Berlin.
- at
- Digitale Stadt Wien
- under construction ...
- ua
- Freenet Kiev
- the Kyiv FreeNet, the first public-access community Internet Service east of the Elbe. We are a
communitynetwork with the goal of promoting the free exchange of ideas and a sense of community.
- uk
- Cyberia (London)
- "Networking for the rest of us - Very often very busy..."
- us
- City of Palo Alto
- As a part of the Centennial the City has been working with a group of
businesses, citizens and the school district to develop a city-wide information
network. The Internet was one possibility for the community network.
- The Sprawl
- to chibamoo - the sprawl, the worlds first public access web server and multi media moo! the sprawl
is a collaborative hyperarchical integrated media environment (chime)
- tourist guides and city information
- City.Net
- City.Net is updated each day to provide easy and timely access toinformation on travel, entertainment,
and local business, plus government andcommunity services for all regions of the world.
- The Virtual Tourist California
- other lists
- UWEC -- Free-Nets List
- This page is a listing of Free-Nets around the world. It is broken up into three areas:guest access to systems,
links to WWW servers, and links to Gopher servers. This pageis useful to see how many Free-Nets there are around the world
- Community Networks
- Information and Instructions - Global List of Bulletin Board Items - Perform WAIS Search on Bulletin Board
- articles about the digital city Amsterdam
- The Digital City Foundation
- A test bed for the electronic highway -
- "No agoraphobia in Amsterdam Digital City"
- an Interview with Marleen Stikker, by Shuschen Tan
- From the techno-anarchist 'Hacktic' to the Internet server 'XS4all'
- an interview with Felipe Rodriquez and Rob Gonggrijp, by Shuchen Tan
- Ueber den Aufbau einer virtuellen Oeffentlichkeit
- Die Digitale Stadt Amsterdam, Von Geert Lovink
- other articles
- Virtual City Network Project
- A large part of my design goal in building VirtualCity is to challenge people's assumptions about "the realworld" versus "the virtual world"
- T. A. Z. - Hakim Bey
- The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
- Urban Control: The Ecology of Fear - Mike Davis
- 1. Beyond Blade Runner 2. Scanscape 3. Free Fire Zone 4. The Half-Moons of Repression 5. The Neighbors are Watching 6. Mini-Citadels and Geroncrats
- Distributed Virtual Reality - Carl E Loeffler
- The salient points of the virtual city include: - a distributed, three dimensional inhabitable environment - investigation of tele-existence in a distributed virtual construct - capability of supporting potentially unlimited participants
- Virtual Communities - Howard Rheingold
- The Future of Democracy and The Four Fundamentals of Computer-Mediated Communicationby Howard RheingoldFor Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, June 1994
- Toward a Philosophy of the WWW - Roger B. Blumberg
- Perhaps the most well-liked axiom of post-modern philosophy is that ourconceptual systems are largely metaphorical.
- The VirtualCity - Bruce Sterling
- bruces@well.sf.ca.us Literary Freeware: Not For Commercial Use Speech at Rice Design Alliance: "The Virtual City" Houston, Texas, March 2, 1994
- Metaphoric Rocks - Gregory L. Ulmer
- A Psychogeography of Tourism and Monumentalityby
- Social Aspects of the Web - Dilip Barman
- There is tremendous potential for the web to act as a catalyst at least for information dissemination, and possiblyto help effect social change at the grassroots level in towns and communities.
- The Information City - A. Dieberger, J.G. Tromp A Metaphor for Navigating Hypertexts
- Hypertexts often suffer from the well-known phenomenon of "getting lost in hyperspace". As the user interface is one of the key
components of a usable hypertext system, it is often seen as the key to this problem.
- The Touring Galaxy - Volker Grassmuck
- Into the muddy waters of the turing galaxy, death and metaphoric rebirth of the world in the media and of media
in the universal medium
- Netizens Info
- Netizens are Net Citizens who utilize the Net from their home, workplace, school, library, etc.
These people are among those who populate the Net, and make it a resource of human beings.
- ELEKTROPOLIS - Elizabeth M. Reid
- IRC has the potential to affect users of the system in many and often opposing ways. For the shy and socially ill-at-ease, computer mediated communication
can provide a way of learning social skills in a non-threatening environment.
- social architecture and urban planning
- CITY OF BITS website at MIT Press
- Pulling Glass, Electronic Agoras, Cyborg Citizens, Recombinant Architecture, Soft Cities, Bit Biz, Getting to the Good Bits, Surf Sites
- The Computable City paper - Michael Batty
- As planners we areaccus-tomed to using computers to advance our science and art but itwould appear that the city itself is turning into a constellation ofcomputers.
- West Hollywood's Virtual City Hall
- (1) promote a high quality physical and social environmentthat fosters a sense of wholeness, vitality and balance in a highly diversified urbanresidential and business community
- Social Filtering Practice in the Net
- Social Filtering Practice in the Net - There are LOTS of social experiments happening in networks now. Here are a few ofour favorites.
- Architecture of the Future - Dr. Rand Bohrer
- Architects deal with the relationship of people to their environment. What architects do is structure this relationship. People live in an increasingly electronic environment. Does this mean architecture becomes electronic?
- Ellipsis...The Interactivator
- Ellipsis is Jonathan Moberly and Tom Neville. We are publishers of avant-garde contemporary architecture books -we are now bringing the thinking which has earned us considerable notoriety in our field into the world ofelectronic publishing.
- IT2000 Vision
- "The Next Lap", a plan formulated by the Singapore government, charts the future direction of Singapore
- virtual states
- Oceania -- The Atlantis Project
- The Atlantis Project is dedicated to the goal of establishing a new country named Oceania. This country will be devoted to the
value of freedom, and will first exist as a sea city in the Caribbean.
- more or less pure commercial sites
- theme parks
- Disney Parks
- Atlantis Cyberspace Theme Park
The next generation of VR systems is now becoming available. The era of interactive
and immersive entertainment has arrived. Enter "Hawaii Virtual Reality Entertainment
Center" with its "Atlantis Cyberspace" concept!
- List of amusement parks
- shopping malls
- Downtown Anywhere - Front Street
- Welcome to Downtown Anywhere'sFront Street!Downtown Anywhere: The virtual city, with a real economy
- Future Pirates will begin a brand new online service called "Franky Online in June21,1995. It will premiere at the Windows World Expo in Tokyo, and 500,000 freeCD-ROM! are planned to be distributed in the first 3 months.
- The Graphical Virtual Town
- Hello! Welcome to the Virtual Town. I am the mayor, Vik Varma. I have tried to assemble various links onthe Web into a form that resembles what you and I would find in a typical town. There are stores, publicoffices, and much more!
- Grand Piazza
- Cassone has a long and venerable history; one born of the sea and soil; nurtured by its godparents,industry and piety; and baptised in the blood of its soliders and seamen. We have many resourcesavailable for your edification and amusement.
- HIA/Virtual Village Information - New York / San Francisco Real Estate
- Becoming a merchant of the village will increase your companies exposure, expand your target markets, keep you competitive, reduce your costs, increase sales and improve profitability.
- Freeside - The ECafe virtual city
- Welcome to the Virtual city of Freeside. This city forms the basis of the ECafe interface, providingan easy method for users to navigate the Internet.
- Free Port Start
- Hier können wir für Sie eine Vertretung mit einem Bürogebäude oder ein Service-Büro einrichten. Sichern Sie sich Ihre Vertretung.
- Texas "Virtual Community!"
- Contained within are commercial, organizational, and City Government Listings.
- eWorld
- the on-line service from Apple Computer
This list is far from beeing complete, please report new or dead links to pit@contrib.de
, start 2/30/95, last change 11/11/95