City of bits space, place and the infobahn

• Main Author: Mitchell, William J (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 1996 (2000 printing)
• Subjects: Virtual reality; Information technology; Computer networks
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• Physical Description: 225 pages illustrations 23 cm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0262631768; 9780262631761

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. William Mitchell makes extensive use of practical examples and illustrations in a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture and urbanism in the context of the digital telecommunications revolution, the ongoing miniaturization of electronics, the commodification of bits, and the growing domination of software over materialized form.