| Description |
225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Pulling Glass -- 2. Electronic Agoras -- 3. Cyborg Citizens -- 4. Recombinant Architecture -- 5. Soft Cities -- 6. Bit Biz -- 7. Getting to the Good Bits -- Surf Sites |
| Summary |
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 telecommunication revolution, the ongoing miniaturization of electronics, the commodification of bits, and the growing domination of software over materialized form |
| Analysis |
Society Effects of Information technology |
| Notes |
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [175]-208 |
| Subject |
Computer networks.
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Information superhighway.
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Information technology.
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Virtual reality.
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| LC no. |
95007212 |
| ISBN |
0262133091 (acid free-paper) |
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0262631768 (paperback) |
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