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Community and Privacy in a Hyper-Connected World

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  • Roderick J. Lawrence

    (Geneva School of Social Sciences (G3S), University of Geneva, Switzerland)

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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.

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  • Roderick J. Lawrence, 2023. "Community and Privacy in a Hyper-Connected World," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(3), pages 169-171.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v:8:y:2023:i:3:p:169-171
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