Events in Sociology

The urban imaginary in ruins: video games and the future-present feedback loop

Urban ruins have come to dominate the conception of the modern city to such an extent that in 2014 Cairns and Jacobs wondered whether such ruins are “too full of multiple, hyper-meanings to be worthy of analysis or use any longer”. Despite this pronouncement, urban ruins have rarely been studied in relation to urban imaginaries, or video g..