Back To The Information City

In his 1994 doctoral dissertation, Andreas Dieberger proposed to visualize hypertexts as cityscapes. Revisiting this concept with the aid of modern processors and displays, we have found that the Information City provides a new perspective on hypertext visualization itself, a practice inspired both by structuralist and by existentialist thought. Where conventional spatial hypertext has tended to focus on proximity, the Information City often foregrounds the implicit semantics of the spaces between buildings.