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re PLAN [t]

By diego.camargo ⋅ August 28, 2008 ⋅ One comment

During WWI and WWII, a government propaganda strategy became a moral buster during these harsh years for the communities of the allied countries. Under the name “Victory Gardens”, the plan Aimed to alleviate the shortage of vegetables supplies in the urban areas- since big part of the production was being destined for the soldiers across [...]

Social divisions shifting from a physical to a virtual space

By areti.markopoulou ⋅ August 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

New communities occupying urban and cyber space
Virtual potentials tend to eliminate physical distances, they facilitate communication and create an easily accessible virtual database of information. From Anthony Giddens to Manuel Castells in Informational City (1989) and to Pierre Levy in the Qu’ est-ce que le virtuel (1995), there is no doubt that computer-mediated [...]

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