New Scenarios of Using Public Spaces with the Development of Digital Technology

Student: Yachmeneva Elizaveta

Supervisor: Jan Levchenko

Educational Programme: Cultural Studies (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2017

This work is intended to contribute to the definition of the importance of digital technologies for the development of public spaces, including how to change the theories of improvement of public spaces and urban development depending on the new formats of public spaces; how social and cultural practices, urban behavior patterns, representations and interpretations change city space with the advent of a virtual component. Therefore, the first chapter will describe urban theories which existed before and after the digital revolution and the daily practices of residents who were influenced by the greatest changes with the emergence of mobile technologies. In the second chapter, the existing urban space, its structure and interaction with residents and particular examples of integration of digital technologies in a modern city will be explored.

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