Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Mattern Shannon Christine Paperback
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Mattern Shannon Christine Paperback For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. In Code…
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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Mattern Shannon Christine Paperback
For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances the provocative argument that our urban spaces have been "smart" and 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. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia?
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