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E-topia
The global digital network is not just a delivery system for e-mail and Web pages. It is a whole new urban infrastructure - one that will change the forms of our cities. This book argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones. author: Mitchell, William J.; publisher: MIT P.
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E-topia
The global digital network is not just a delivery system for e-mail and Web pages. It is a whole new urban infrastructure - one that will change the forms of our cities. This book argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones. author: Mitchell, William J.; publisher: MIT P.
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The MIT Press E-topia: Urban Life, Jim - But Not as We Know It
We're not all about to become rootless, laptop-toting, cellphoning nomads--thank goodness! This is the reassuring message of William J. Mitchell's latest volume, which imagines how digital technology will shape our cities and communities in the future.<p> Witty, lucid and objective, futurist guru Mitchell examines how smart (ie technologically adapted) places, buildings and clothes, will change our relationships with other people and objects. Essentially, that means more working from home (which will affect housing), friendlier neighbourhoods (because we can link up more easily) and globalisation carried to bizarre ends (very-low-wage workers in Africa can watch video monitors connected to security cameras in New York).<p> Mitchell makes the exciting argument that we can fashion the new world in the way we want. It will be possible for the affluent elite to use technology to create privileged enclaves: Silicon Valley professionals can already commute to their campus workplaces barely noticing the crime-ridden areas; alternatively, architects and urban designers can help to create social groups that intersect and overlap.<p> This is an important book for politicians and would-be entrepreneurs. Mitchell predicts many changes: for example, cooks, gardeners and nannies will be earn big bucks because they provide services which cannot be automated, but the value of information-related services (lawyers and accountants) will go down. But while the computer networks of the future will change politics, work patterns and purchasing habits, Mitchell takes the position that urban planning should still focus on the cultural, scenic and climatic attractions of place. In the end Mitchell's vision is neither a utopia or a dystopia, but a convincing portrait of life in the ditigal age. --<I>Brian Jenner</I>
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