Code and Clay, Data and Dirt : Five Thousand Years of Urban Media

多年來，專家們一直吹捧著大數據和智能網絡將帶給我們城市驚人的變化。在Code and Clay中，Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern提出了一個挑釁性的論點，即我們的城市空間已經“智能”並經過了數千年的傳播。

提供有關城市強大新思維的方式，遠遠超出了起源、發展、革命和少數菁英成就的標準歷史概念。 Mattern表示，在其建築、法律、街道佈局和公民知識中，以及透過電話、電報、廣播、印刷、書寫甚至人類語音之類的技術，城市長期以來一直在模擬、數字代碼之間進行廣泛的交換。

Mattern生動的散文將讀者帶入歷史和地理上的故事、場景和位置，為我們的城市空間綜合了新的敘事。將媒體考古學帶到城市的街道上，揭示書寫我們的城市、媒體和文化歷史的新方法。

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's streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.

Shannon Mattern(Author)

Publisher:Univ Of Minnesota Press 

ISBN:   978-1517902445