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A changing environment: the virtual world meets the physical world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

William Mitchell
William Mitchell
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Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning MIT and professor of architecture and media arts and sciences there. His new book, e-topia: Urban Life, Jim, But Not as We Know It, explores the new farms and functions of cities in the digital era
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Abstract

With the coming of computers and the Internet, the relationship of the physical and virtual worlds has shifted. Virtual environments will not replace physical ones, but the nature, location, and function of the latter will change, creating both challenges and opportunities for architects.

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Perspective
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 303 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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