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Contemporary Digital and Visual Culture In ContextCityscape and New Media

An introduction to cityscape

Paco Gonzlez / radarq.net

Carla Melgar / cali2copio.net

July 2013, CIEE Sevilla
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An introduction to cityscape


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What is a cityscape?The urban landscape of a city.

Citation needed Author


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A cityscape is the urban equivalent of alandscape. In urban design the terms referto the configuration of built forms andinterstitial space.

In the visual arts a cityscape (urbanlandscape) is an artistic representation,such as a painting, drawing, print orphotograph, of the physical aspects of acity or urban area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityscape
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Flagellation of Christ (probably 14551460) - Piero della Francesca


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Children's Games (1560), Pieter Bruegel the Elder


7/104View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer 1660-1661


8/104View of the entrance to the Arsenal (c. 1732), Canaletto


9/104Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876), Pierre-Auguste Renoir


10/104Rue de Paris, temps de pluie. (1877), Gustave Caillebotte


11/104Charing Cross Bridge (1899), Claude Monet


12/104Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Amsterdam (c. 18901900), George Hendrik Breitner


13/104Nighthawks (1942), Edward Hopper


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Try to imagine this city


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James and Karla Murray



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Landscape history. A culturalconstruction of the territory.



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Landscape


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Landscape comprises the visible features

of an area of land, including thephysicalelements of landforms such as (ice-capped)mountains, hills, water bodies such as

rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, livingelements of land cover includingindigenous vegetation, human elementsincluding different forms of land use,

buildings and structures, and transitoryelements such as lighting and weather

conditions.


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Combining both theirphysical origins andthe cultural overlay of human presence,often created over millennia, landscapes

reflect the living synthesis of people andplace vital to local and national

identity.

Landscapes, their character and quality,

help define the self image of a region,

its sense of place that differentiates it

from other regions. It is the dynamic

backdrop to peoples lives.


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More recent geographers have addressed thesubjective attributes of a place within

humanistic geography thus crossing thebridge between the objective and thesubjective assessment of an area.

The popular conception of the landscape

that is reflected in dictionaries conveys

a particular and a general meaning; the

particular referring to an area of the

Earth's surface and the general meaning

being that which can be seen by an

observer.


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Cultural landscapes


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Cultural Landscapes have been defined bythe World Heritage Committee as distinct

geographical areas or properties uniquely

"..represent[ing] the combined work ofnature and of man..".


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The World Heritage Committee has

identified and adopted three categories of

cultural landscape, ranging from (1) those

landscapes most deliberately 'shaped' bypeople, through (2) full range of

'combined' works, to (3) those least

evidently 'shaped' by people (yet highly

valued):

1.- "a landscape designed and created

intentionally by man";

2.- an "organically evolved landscape"

which may be a "relict (or fossil)

landscape" or a"continuing landscape";

3.- an "associative cultural landscape"

which may be valued because of the"religious, artistic or cultural

associations of the natural element"


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Ruhrss Cultural Park


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Try to imagine peoples stories


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Kalla KataylaStephan Zirwes


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Stephan Zirwes


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Stephan Zirwes


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Stephan Zirwes


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Stephan Zirwes


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An easy example


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Europe - NASA

Urbanized world andthe cities networks.


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What is a city?


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New York City / es.wikipedia.org
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Skyline-New-York-City.jpghttp://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Skyline-New-York-City.jpg


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Favela Rocinha. Sao Paulo. Brasil / CC by Leszek Wasilewski es.wikipedia.org
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By Christopher Gielen


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Tower of Babel - Bruegel / thegatesofdamascus
http://thegatesofdamascus.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/babylon/http://thegatesofdamascus.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/babylon/


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What is a bridge? Asked thefalsely naive Julio Cortzar.

And he answer himself: aperson crossing the bridge.

What is a city? A place wherea lot of people interact. A

public space, open andprotected. A place which is amaterial and social fact, aproducer of meaning. A

concentration of meetingnodes.

[At first thougth we canconsider the opposite but]Streets and public spaces,the collective spaces, are

first in a city. Only thenwill become buildings androads ().

-Jordi Borja. La CiudadConquistada


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Barcelona - The Eixample / CC-by kelp
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Barcelona - Google Maps / Google


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Barcelona - Google Maps / Google


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Europe - NASA


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Europe - NASA


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Apollo 8 - NASA


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Earth at night - NASA
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World of Facebook - good.is
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Urbanized world
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Urbanized
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How is new mediachanging the cities?



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Jeffrey Inaba. Volume #24 Counterculture



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From the square to networks


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FourSquare


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2010 Europa TechnologiesUS Dept. of State Geography


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Citizens as digital practitioners



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Las dinmicas de redpermiten y estimulanlaparticipacin y la colaboracin online

con un impacto directo en lo que podramosdenominar el mbito offline y los espaciospresenciales, tanto en su diseo como en

las dinmicas que en estos se pueden

establecer.

De la confluencia de lo digital y lopresencial se descubren y se provocan

oportunidades donde el aprendizaje ocupael centro de la actividad social en el

entramado urbano.

Cita del taller #urbanedu: entorno digital y

aprendizaje urbano Paco Gonzlez y Enric Senabre

La Commune
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La Communeraspouteam.org

Paris sinvente une image de ville propre

et police pour mieux oublier certains

pisodes de son histoire agite.

En 1871, pendant plus de deux mois, la

ville se donne un gouvernement populaire,une arme civile et dmocratique,

exprimente la dmocratie directe, et

entreprend des rformes sociales. Le Paris

insurg est aussi accueillant pour les

trangers, quils soient italiens,

polonais ou algriens

Encore un trait qui loppose au Paris de

2011.
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Museum of London


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Museum of Londonmuseumoflondon.org.uk

No text because of flash.
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15M BIFI visualization


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15M BIFI visualization15m.bifi.es

The study carried out constitutes a unique

opportunity to get enough of real time

statistical data. Other mass-tracking

events such as large sport events, tend tobe too concentrated in a few hours and

some processes for which large statistics

can be obtained, are usually of slow

variation. A social phenomenon like the

15M movement is an excellent opportunity

to understand network formation processes

and its spreading dynamics.
http://15m.bifi.es/http://15m.bifi.es/


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Why cityscape?

http://youtu.be/jwMj3PJDxuo


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Answers?


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