Geographers are only just starting to theorize and study the emerging phenomenon of cyber- space. City of Bits, however, is one of the few works about . City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. William J. Mitchell; Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia. Fu-chen Lo and Yue-man Yeung, editors. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. William J. Mitchell, Author MIT Press (MA) $20 (p) ISBN
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The seven chapters are amply hyperlinked, reviews will be posted on an ongoing basis, and readers are invited to leave comments, to which the author may respond. Aug 15, Zhi Chen rated it liked it. Utne Reader offers provocative writing from diverse infobahj, insightful analysis of art and media, down-to-earth news and in-depth coverage of eye-opening issues that affect your life.
Regardless of your enthusiasm, or lack thereof, towards all this emergent hyper-digital urbanism stuff, Mitchell’s trio of books are well worth the effort.
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City of Bits: Space, Place And The Infobahn
Mitchell spends a lot of time musing about cyberspace’s history and the digital future in overwrought prose, describing a book as ‘tree flakes encased in dead cow,’ and the Internet as a ‘worldwide, time-zone-spanning optic nerve with electronic eyeballs at its endpoints? Visionary in scope this book opened my eyes to the potential for social space on the internet.
Oct 31, Vicky rated it liked it. It’s simple; if you cannot get bits on and off in sufficient quantity, you cannot directly benefit from the Net.
City of Bits: Space, Place And The Infobahn
Thoughtstones rated it liked it Feb 17, Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. Feel optimistic about the future?
An Economy of False Profits. Want to gain a fresh perspective? Citizen access to electronic public sites such as government agency Web pages and community networks shouldn’t be limited to computers in the home or business, he writes.
Eventually, however, the book must be read. Fermented Foods For Health. Since the cost of a high-bandwidth cable connection grows with distance, information hot spots often develop around high-capacity data sources, much as oases grow spave around wells.
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn
Mostly boring to read 20 years later because so many of these predictions were just true and are now commonplace. May 30, Nathan added it. Accessibility is redefined; tapping directly into a broadband data highway is like being on Main Street, but a low baud-rate connection puts you out in the boonies, where the flow of information reduces to a trickle, where you cannot make so many connections, ciyy where rhe are less intense.
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City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn by William J. Mitchell
This guy is an architect first and an info architect second. Get to Know The Beatles. Thanks for telling us about the problem.
That said, I do love the extended architectural metaphor. Finally, as parks and squares must cihy attractive to all, so should the public areas of cyberspace. Given the rapid technological progress that had occurred since the publication of the book, reading the author’s descriptions of now ordinary processes like emailing, teleconferencing, or online shopping is rather boring.