| Description |
1 online resource (xl, 235 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Waves and Wires -- 2. Steel and Ink -- 3. Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis -- 4. Speaking Stones -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes |
| Summary |
For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances the provocative argument that our urban spaces have been smartand mediated for thousands of years. Offering powerful new ways of thinking about our cities, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt goes far beyond the standard historical concepts of origins, development, revolutions, and the accomplishments of an elite few. Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledge-and through technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human voice-cities have long negotiated a rich exchange between analog and digital, code and clay, data and dirt, ether and ore. Matterns vivid prose takes readers through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, and locations, synthesizing a new narrative for our urban spaces. Taking media archaeology to the citys streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2017) |
| Subject |
City planning -- Data processing
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Cities and towns -- Information services
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Cities and towns -- Social aspects
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Municipal engineering -- Data processing
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Internet of things.
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urban environments.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
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Cities and towns -- Information services
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Cities and towns -- Social aspects
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City planning -- Data processing
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Internet of things
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Municipal engineering -- Data processing
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017019442 |
| ISBN |
9781452955438 |
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1452955433 |
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9781452955421 |
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1452955425 |
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9781452958767 |
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1452958769 |
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