City of Bits by William J Mitchell

City of Bits by William J Mitchell

Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. William Mitchell makes extensive use of practical examples and illustrations in a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture and urbanism in the context of the digital telecommunications revolution, the ongoing miniaturization of electronics, the commodification of bits, and the growing domination of software over materialized form.

Alexander W. Mitchell is the Alexander W. Mitchell is the Alexander W. Mitchell is the Alexander W. Mitchell is the Alexander W. Mitchell is Dreyfoos is a Senior Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at MIT's Media Lab, where he also oversees the Smart Cities research group. He formerly served as the Dean of the School of Architecture and the Director of the MIT Program in Media Arts and Sciences. Imagining MIT: Building a Campus for the Twenty-First Century, Positioning Words: Symbols, Space, and the City, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, e-topia: Urban Life, Jim--but Not as We Know It, City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, and The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Age, all published by The MIT Press, are among his works.

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ISBN 13	9780262631761
ISBN 10	0262631768
Title	City of Bits
Author	William J Mitchell
Series	The Mit Press
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	1996-07-25
Number of pages	232
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