ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses technology's optical and spatial effects upon the viewer, with reference to the increasing proliferation of camera networks throughout urban space. It revisits disruptive spatial frameworks, such as the Enlightenment construct of anamorphosis, to understand the oblique viewpoint for the digitally represented city. It also examines how the open structure of the camera network and the surveillant viewpoint fundamentally shift the distribution of civic space, thus enabling its established systems of control and ownership to be questioned. Therefore, in this respect, it sets the ground for a more explicit discussion of the new representational tools and techniques arising from these conditions that are available to the architect.
