How the Internet Redefined Urban Space

As the internet spreads beyond our computer screens and into the physical world, how can we define and distinguish between public and private spaces?

That's the question explored by Modulated Cities: Networked Spaces, Reconstituted Subjects, a new publication from the Architectural League of New York. This installment, part of a series on the computer's impact on architecture and urbanism, is a dialog of essay-responses between New York University Professor of Media, Culture and Communica­tion and Computer Science Helen Nissenbaum and Kazys Varnelis of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Their discussion delves into the challenges raised by technologies in the urban realm that feed off the information we share on the internet.