Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations
emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital
networks enable embedded and mobile devices to integrate place-specific data
with real-time feedback circuits, everyday experience of public space has become
subject to new demands. Looking beyond debates framed by the dominance of
surveillance and spectacle, McQuire asks: how might the kind of collaborative
practices that have flourished in art and online cultures be translated into
urban space?
In the urban crisis of the 1960s, Henri Lefebvre argued that the capacity for a
city's inhabitants to actively appropriate the time and space of their
surroundings was a