The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space

Offering social commentary at the deepest levels of historical and critical reference, The Media City links Myspace to Howard Hughes
trams to cinema
security cameras to exploding buildings
reality TV to Marx
and Lenin on privacy to Kracauer on the mass ornament. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated, it intersects disciplines and connects phenomena which are too often left isolated from each other to propose a new way of understanding public and private space and social life in contemporary cities.