>
> <Newspapers, television, radio, books, etc. have very few spatial
> requirements.>
>
> If Mcluhan's thesis is correct, then technology enables media, which in
> turn collapse space/time. Through each successive development in
> technology/media, from cave painting to cuneiform, from Gutenberg to Howdy
> Doody, heterogeneity increases and people are released from the temporal
> zone.
This is physical space you are referring to?
The virtual/information/electric landscape has its own sets of space-time.
People are dropped into new temporal spheres (possibly several at once).
> <The city is, and should be,
> defined by people and people's requirements.>
>
> Who can argue with that?
caveat: ideally the people who inhabit the city...?
Mat
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Matiu Carr
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University of Auckland email: m.carr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
New Zealand
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