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'''After the City''' is [[Lars Lerup]]'s influential theoretical work published by MIT Press that examines the transformation of urban space in the post-industrial era and its implications for human-environment relationships. The book explores how contemporary cities are being reshaped by technological infrastructure, global capitalism, and new forms of mobility that challenge traditional urban planning paradigms. Lerup's analysis is particularly relevant to cyborg anthropological concerns about how technological systems are integrated into urban environments and daily life. | '''After the City''' is [[Lars Lerup]]'s influential theoretical work published by MIT Press that examines the transformation of urban space in the post-industrial era and its implications for human-environment relationships. The book explores how contemporary cities are being reshaped by technological infrastructure, global capitalism, and new forms of mobility that challenge traditional urban planning paradigms. Lerup's analysis is particularly relevant to cyborg anthropological concerns about how technological systems are integrated into urban environments and daily life. | ||
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The work contributes to understanding how architectural and urban spaces serve as interfaces between human bodies and technological systems, creating environments where the boundaries between built and digital infrastructure become increasingly blurred. Lerup's analysis of contemporary urbanism reveals how cities function as large-scale cyborg systems that extend human capabilities while also constraining and channeling human behavior through technological mediation. | The work contributes to understanding how architectural and urban spaces serve as interfaces between human bodies and technological systems, creating environments where the boundaries between built and digital infrastructure become increasingly blurred. Lerup's analysis of contemporary urbanism reveals how cities function as large-scale cyborg systems that extend human capabilities while also constraining and channeling human behavior through technological mediation. | ||
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==From the Publisher== | ==From the Publisher== | ||
Latest revision as of 20:43, 16 September 2025
After the City is Lars Lerup's influential theoretical work published by MIT Press that examines the transformation of urban space in the post-industrial era and its implications for human-environment relationships. The book explores how contemporary cities are being reshaped by technological infrastructure, global capitalism, and new forms of mobility that challenge traditional urban planning paradigms. Lerup's analysis is particularly relevant to cyborg anthropological concerns about how technological systems are integrated into urban environments and daily life.
From a cyborg anthropological perspective, "After the City" addresses how urban environments increasingly function as hybrid technological-social systems where human experience becomes mediated through digital infrastructure, surveillance networks, and algorithmic management systems. Lerup examines how cities are evolving into complex cyborg entities that integrate human activity with technological systems in ways that fundamentally alter the nature of urban experience and spatial relationships.
The work contributes to understanding how architectural and urban spaces serve as interfaces between human bodies and technological systems, creating environments where the boundaries between built and digital infrastructure become increasingly blurred. Lerup's analysis of contemporary urbanism reveals how cities function as large-scale cyborg systems that extend human capabilities while also constraining and channeling human behavior through technological mediation.
From the Publisher
"An architect's view of the new metropolitan consciousness and the suburban metropolis as the future frontier.
The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city. The new building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time, and so forth. Consequently, according to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought.Until now, architects have been trained to serve the elite few, as reflected in a belief in customization and the uniqueness of each project. Instead, Lerup holds, architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects, combined with an integration of design and practice. Before we can rethink the architectural curriculum, however, we must rethink the metropolis.And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerup does.
In an intellectually far-ranging yet intensely personal manner, he moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. The result is an exhilarating work with profound practical implications. Unlike the many who view suburbia with paranoid dismay, Lerup takes an optimistic view of the new, open metropolis—for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an exciting new frontier." [1]
