Mattern, Shannon
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt
- ISBN 13:
- 9781517902445
- author:
- Mattern, Shannon
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 25.4 x 17.78 x 3.81 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Cities have long been built for intelligence, with their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledge negotiating a rich exchange between analog and digital. 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. Through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, and locations, Mattern synthesizes a new narrative for our urban spaces, taking media archaeology to the city's streets. This book reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories, offering powerful new ways of thinking about our cities. Mattern's vivid prose brings together technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human voice to show how cities have long negotiated a complex exchange between code and clay, data and dirt.
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