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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattern, Shannon Christine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

History.

Mass media.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Internet of things.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xl, 235 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Code and clay, data and dirt

Place of Publication:

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

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 smartand 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. Matterns 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 citys streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.

Contents:

1 Waves and Wires: Cities of Electric Sound 1

2 Steel and Ink: The Printed City 43

3 Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization 85

4 Speaking Stones: Voicing the City 115.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mattern, Shannon Christine, author. Code and clay, data and dirt

ISBN:

9781517902438

1517902436

9781517902445

1517902444

OCLC:

982091622