Community and Privacy in a Hyper-Connected World

Roderick J. Lawrence
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Roderick J. Lawrence: Geneva School of Social Sciences (G3S), University of Geneva, Switzerland

Urban Planning, 2023, vol. 8, issue 3, 169-171

Abstract: Christopher Alexander and Serge Chermayeff co-authored Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism in 1963. This seminal contribution has largely been forgotten. Today, a human-centred framework is rarely discussed by researchers and practitioners, neither from a theoretical nor a pragmatic perspective. Nonetheless, some fundamental principles defined in that book 60 years ago are pertinent today in our hyper-connected world, and they have been illustrated by the need for human-centred housing during the recent Covid-19 pandemic. This commentary explains the spatial organization of domestic architecture that can support and sustain choices about private and public life in a world of global networks, intrusions of social media, and increasing video surveillance that challenge our autonomy and privacy.

Keywords: boundaries; global network society; housing design; private-public interfaces; transition spaces (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v8i3.7189

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