City of bits space, place, and the infobahn
This is an introduction to a new type of city, a largely invisible but increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the emerging information superhighway. Practical examples and illustrations are used to examine architecture and urbanism in the context of digital telecommunicati...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press
©1995.
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Colección: | Open Research Library ebooks.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44538054*spi |
Sumario: | This is an introduction to a new type of city, a largely invisible but increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the emerging information superhighway. Practical examples and illustrations are used to examine architecture and urbanism in the context of digital telecommunications revolution, the ongoing miniaturisation of electronics, the comodification of bits, and the growing domination of software over materialized form. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (225 p.) : il., mapas |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 175-208) e índice. |
ISBN: | 9780585024424 9780262133098 9780262631761 9780262279956 |