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Yazarlar: Gülşah GÜLEÇ

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Atopia,Atopic city,Urban language,Urban theory,Technology

Özet: It is discussed in this paper that atopic city, even if it is developed as an urban theory in the 20th century, defines the city of the 21st century. It refers to every place and no place. It is conceptually different from utopia and dystopia, because it focuses on today not future. However, the changes in the relations of atopia, city and technology lead the conceptual framework of atopic city to change as well. Those changes are discussed through the shift of physical space to cyber space, meta to data, transportation networks to communicational networks, supermodernism to hipermodernism, panoptic to cybernetic, object to image, experience to impression, and cityscape to datascape in the paper. The language of the atopic city is significantly changed due to the developments in the computer technology in the 1990s. Atopic cities are designed computationally within a virtual environment in the 2000s. Those cities are generally designed by the same tools and in the same environment. That computational design process enables a new atopic city language to be created. We need to understand that language to understand today’s city. The paper is therefore based on the atopic city language, and the change of that language actually

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