Cyburbia

Cyburbia is a word for a place which combines architecture and the internet.

History

Since 1994, it has been employed by an urban planning web portal called Cyburbia.org to refer to its web forums and directory of planning-related websites.

In February 2009, the writer and social forecaster James Harkin published a book called Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That’s Changing How We Live and Who We Are

Harkin uses Cyburbia to refer to the architecture of our digital lives. Cyburbia, in his interpretation, "is the place to which we go when we spend huge swathes of our time hooked up to other people via a continuous loop of electronic information, and online social networks are only its most visible manifestation."

Other uses

Cyburbia is also the name for a level on a racing game racing game designed for the Sony PlayStation by Twisted Metal, which involves a race to the death through suburbia.