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Cyburbia.


Cyburbia is the name of Buffalo University school of architecture's website and it's it's  

1. Contraction of it is.

2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its.


it's it is or it has
it's be ~have
 at http://cyburbia.ap.buffalo.edu/pairc/. The less fashionable PAIRC PAIRC Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center  stands for Planning and Architecture Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 Resource Centre of this, the only architecture school in the State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state.  system. The site has sections on planning, architecture and the built environment and local information (at the time of writing the Dean of Architecture's job was up) and a bunch of reports on future conferences - and there are several message areas. Although they can be great fun to idly ramble through, I'm never quite sure for whom these sites are meant. Students, perhaps?

I guess you would expect a university department to want to have a site as a kind of expression of its significance in the digital age etc, and as an extension of the library - and earlier I've suggested that many look as though they have been started by ambitious academics whose successors don't have quite the same motivation once the founder has been promoted or moved on. There are, incidentally, signs of that here, if the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous

pro·lif·er·a·tion
n.
 of this-page-cannot-be-found messages is anything to go by - and the odd, unintentionally funny response to searching names: for example clicking Antoni Gaudi in the Famous Architects section leads straight to the Alvar Aalto Foundation site. At least the As match. Maintain or Suicide should be the motto of architecture school sites.
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Title Annotation:Buffalo University school of architecture's website
Publication:The Architectural Review
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Date:Jun 1, 2001
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