HyperCities

"HyperCities" is a web-based learning platform that connects geographical locations with the stories and histories of the people who live there and those who have lived there in the past. Through collaboration between universities and community partners in Los Angeles, Lima, Berlin, Rome, Tel Aviv, New York, and other places, HyperCities will develop and offer a participatory, open-ended learning environment grounded in space and time, place and history, memory and social interaction, oral history and digital media. The launching of the beta version of HyperCities marks the initial phase of development for a series of "city platforms" that will form the backbone of geo-temporal human web. The development of the project is supported by a "Digital Media and Learning" grant from the MacArthur Foundation/HASTAC for 2008-09. Prior support for the project was provided by a "Digital Innovation" grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, in collaboration with UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA's Academic Technology Services, the UCLA Academic Senate, and the UCLA Office of Instructional Development. The initial idea for the project Hypermedia Berlin was incubated at the Stanford Humanities Laboratory in 2001-03.

The UCLA Digital Library provides dynamic access to content through the HyperCities platform.

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