E-Topia: "Urban Life, Jim -- But Not as We Know It"
"Urban Life, Jim -- But Not As We Know It"
$94.72
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2000
Summary
The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure—one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this lucid, invigorating book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and its implications for our future daily lives.Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262632058 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262632055 |
| Author: | William J. Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Mit Press |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 152mm x 227mm |
| Series: | e-topia |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
…e-topia is a good primer for anyone interested in how we are going to inhabit the digital era. – Lawrence Chua * Bookforum * E-topia offers a brilliant and succinct lesson on how the evolution of information and other technologies has altered the way we build workplaces and communities, manage relationships, and supply our material wants and needs. It unobtrusively lays digital technology into historical and material context, rendering it this way as something not to fear. – Randall Lyman * San Francisco Bay Guardian *
About The Author
William J. Mitchell
William J. Mitchell was the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and directed the Smart Cities research group at MIT’s Media Lab.
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