Barefoot in the Overlay: The Perfect Digital City and the Ruins of Public Space

Authors

  • Adam Brown James Cook University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.10.0.2011.3408

Abstract

Digitally generated views of Townsville's recent city centre redevelopment attempt to overlay visions of a European urban space on the contested territory of the tropical city. Such views obscure the site of an uneven relationship between the various communities which inhabit the city space, by representing a space of apparent completeness and fixity. Applying insights
from critical spatial studies and psychogeography, such representations of the city appear to ossify public discourse rather than work towards the creation of genuine multi user spaces, which are always problematic to successfully design and visualise.

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Published

2011-12-08

How to Cite

Brown, A. (2011). Barefoot in the Overlay: The Perfect Digital City and the Ruins of Public Space. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 10. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.10.0.2011.3408