Our so-called ‘information society’ is an increasingly urban society; the information age is an age where more people are living in cities than in rural areas. The dissertation seeks to explore the critical relationship between two of the most significant processes of contemporary social, economic, geographical, political and cultural change across the world: The intensifying urbanisation of the planet, and the rapid acceleration in the use and capability of Web 2.0 technology. The title, City 2.0, implies a synthesis of the two.
Specifically, what impact will new and future Web technology have on architecture and urbanism? From the Situationist International to Augmented Reality, from Archigram to the Open Source, the dissertation draws on a broad range of technical and theoretical proposition in an attempt to define a new 'standard' of urban reality.
