Code + clay ... data + dirt : five thousand years of urban media / Shannon Mattern.

Main entry:

Mattern, Shannon Christine, author.

Title & Author:

Code + clay ... data + dirt : five thousand years of urban media / Shannon Mattern.

Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Description:

xl, 235 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Waves and wires : cities of electric sound -- Steel and ink : the printed city -- Of mud, media, and the metropolis : aggregating histories of writing and urbanization -- Speaking stones : voicing the city -- Coding urban pasts and futures.

Summary:

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 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 and ore. Mattern's vivid prose takes readers through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, and locations, synthesizing a new narrative for our urban spaces. Taking media archaeology to the city streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.

ISBN:

9781517902438 (hardcover)
1517902436 (hardcover)
9781517902445 (paperback)
1517902444 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns History.
Mass media.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Internet of things.
Villes Histoire.
Médias.
Écologie urbaine.
Internet des objets.
mass media.
urban environments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Urban.
ARCHITECTURE Criticism.
Cities and towns.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
ARCHITECTURE / Criticism.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298344
Call No.: BIB 244616
Status: Available

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