Hypermedia Berlin
Cultural History in the Age of New Media, or "Is There a Text in this Class?"
By Todd Presner
Editors' Introduction
http://www.berlin.ucla.edu/hypermedia (Use this link to open Hypermedia Berlin before launching the Flash 'walkthrough' to the right.)
In his 1960 book The Image of the City, urban planner Kevin Lynch showed that a city-dweller's sense of alienation correlated with the degree to which he or she could - or could not - mentally navigate surrounding streets and neighborhoods. Further, he found that a city's "imageability," which is linked to the presence of legible and identifiable kinds of markers, contributes to a sense of familiarity and the acceptance of the city as a recognizable place. Todd Presner's Hypermedia Berlin extends Lynch's ideas through the creation of a series of layered maps of Berlin that not only chronicle the evolution and dissolution of the city's districts, architectural landmarks and boundaries through multiple chronologies, but that also reflect the city through diverging ideological lenses.
Editors' Introduction Continued
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