Infrastructures of the imagined island: software, mobilities, and the architecture of Caribbean paradise.

The writer examines Zaha Hadid's masterplan for a new resort on Dellis Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands to investigate the convergence of state space, informational space, and tourist space in new fantasies of mobility, accessibility, and island paradise. The new software-supported spatialities,...

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Publicado en:Environment & Planning A Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 1386 - 1404
Autor principal: Sheller, Mimi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Pion Limited June 2009
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