HyperCities
thick mapping in the digital humanities
$83.72
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2014
Summary
The prefix “hyper” refers to multiplicity and abundance. More than a physical space, a hypercity is a real city overlaid with information networks that document the past, catalyze the present, and project future possibilities. Hypercities are always under construction.
Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano put digital humanities theory into practice to chart the proliferating cultural records of places around the world. A digital platform transmogrified into a book, it explain…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674725348 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674725344 |
| Author: | Todd Presner, David Shepard, Yoh Kawano |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 18mm |
| Series: | metaLABprojects |
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Critics Review
A provocative overview and theoretical explication of ‘thick mapping’ projects that show enormous potential for complex, multilayered, multidimensional explorations of urban areas. HyperCities is an important book that makes signal contributions to the digital humanities. – Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, Graduate Center, City University of New York
About The Author
Todd Presner
Todd Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles. David Shepard is Lead Academic Programmer at the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles. Yoh Kawano is Campus GIS Coordinator at the Institute for Digital Research and Education and lecturer in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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