Mar 8, 2008 | Urban Space, Volume 12
Typically impenetrable, solid surfaces–barriers, fences, walls–cut space into two distinct parts, an inside and outside. In ancient times, those within the walls of the city, or castle, were protected from barbarians who lived outside the confines of...
Mar 6, 2008 | Film, Urban Space, Volume 12
“Dinner and a themed, interactive, location-based entertainment attraction, anyone?” During the mid 1990s, a series of multi-lateral trade agreements hit Melbourne’s cinema industry with an almost terminal velocity. Fuelled by the vertical integration of global...
Mar 6, 2008 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Television, Urban Space, Volume 12
Abstract: This article maps and investigates the potential for large electronic screens to contribute to the formation of new modes of civic agency in public space. It examines the ‘Public Space Broadcasting’ project in the UK as an alternative to the...
Mar 6, 2008 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Film, Urban Space, Volume 12
In the cinematic pantheon, large format films1 are the Zeus of film. Literally standing head and shoulders above their filmic compatriots, large format films can be shown on flat screens up to eight stories high or dome screens as large as 80 feet2 . But these are not...
Mar 6, 2008 | Browse Past Volumes, Film, Urban Space, Volume 12
At moments of transition, when new media emerge, it is a much-encountered practice within the artifacts produced by those media to reflect upon the nature of the new medium itself. A dominant trope in modern visual culture, emerging or transforming screen media often...
Dec 19, 2003 | Urban Space
The shopping mall is one of the most instantly recognisable architectural forms of the 20th century. In recent years, the mall has undergone a transformation that owes much to the entertainment industry. Adopting an “ageographical” identity that relies on...
