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For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? 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. Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledgeand through technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human voicecities have long negotiated a rich exchange between analog and digital, code and clay, data and dirt, ether and ore.Mattern's vivid prose takes readers through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, an

Code and Clay Data and Dirt

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      Publisher MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Published 11 January 2017
      ISBN-13 9781517902438
      978-1517902438
      ISBN-10 1517902436

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      Book Synopsis
      For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? 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. Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledgeand through technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human voicecities have long negotiated a rich exchange between analog and digital, code and clay, data and dirt, ether and ore.Mattern's vivid prose takes readers through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, an

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