W stronę spersonalizowanego miasta?
Towards a Personalised City?

Summary/Abstract: Since Plato and Vitruvius we have seen continuous efforts to strive for the truth, good and beauty focused around a city as a political idea and fundamentally existential space. For ages these efforts have been coupled with thinking of an ideal arrangement and composition of a city, the sense of subjectivity of its dwellers and users, their experiencing of time and space. In particular, in the recent decades, when it was not the space, but the time and its acceleration that became the basic principle of the natural order of things, the role of architecture has been changing. The information technologies made it an act of communication and therefore a part of the message of the media system. They also reversed the direction and thinking of the urban development — from the only one homogenous space‑time continuum to the personalised city based on individualised personalities and respective places in both physical and virtual reality. In the modernist vision of a city the space‑time continua comprising absolute qualities were a priori preferred over thinking of a city as a gathering of various areas, relation networks and flows which unite, merge or split. The times of the advanced communication technologies raise the question concerning the ontological status of a city where independence and individualism in interpersonal contacts together with the identity loss mechanisms symbolised by removing the social relations from the context of the space have become an ideal.

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