Welcome to the documentation webpage of publictownscape

public townscape was an experiment about space, about user-interaction in the spatial cyberspace. It was an island in Second Life, a public space and it is a diploma thesis, written by Florian Rüger at the "chair of landscapearchitecture and public space" at the Technical University Munich, Germany in 2007/2008.

"The following thesis explores the meaning, the genesis and development of public spaces in the world of media. It deals with subjects as cyberspace, the relation of cyberspace to spatial and public issues, as well as the overlay of real and virtual worlds. (...)."