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020			_a9781517902445
100			_aMattern, Shannon _97131
245		0	_aCode and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media/ _cShannon Mattern
260			_bUniversity of Minnesota Press; _c2017
300			_a288p; _c26x18cm
520			_aFor 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’s streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aNA2000-2320 Study and Teaching. Research _91291
650			_aUrban Spaces- Data _97132
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