Impacts of Social Computing on the Architecture of Urban Spaces

摘要: The development of increasingly compact cities draws critical attention to the design and architecture apartment buildings their role as elemental components urban renewal. At same time, new media information communication technology afford networked individualism emerging social formations that require a re-conceptualisation online vs. offline dichotomy. Public space is becoming complex hybrid in which members what Watters calls 'urban tribes' traverse seamlessly between cyberspace physical space. This paper introduces an Australian case study residents three inner-city complexes. Observations interview results are used illustrate interaction public space, friends, neighbours. discussion these findings highlights there unfulfilled promises unmet challenges both virtual support needs dwellers. We suggest areas engagement: serendipitous encounters residents, sociocultural animation neighbourhoods, digital augmentation