e-topia

""Urban Life, Jim -- But Not As We Know It""

William J. Mitchell (MIT Smart Cities, E14-433D)

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MIT Press
25 August 2000

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Cultural studies; Ethical & social aspects of computing

How an electronically connected world will shape cities and urban relationships of the future.

The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure-one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this lucid, invigorating book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and its implications for our future daily lives.

Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian circulation and mechanized transportation systems. He proposes strategies for the creation of cities that not only will be sustainable but will make economic, social, and cultural sense in an electronically interconnected and global world. The new settlement patterns of the twenty-first century will be characterized by live/work dwellings, 24-hour pedestrian-scale neighborhoods rich in social relationships, and vigorous local community life, complemented by far-flung configurations of electronic meeting places and decentralized production, marketing, and distribution systems. Neither digiphile nor digiphobe, Mitchell advocates the creation of e-topias-cities that work smarter, not harder.

By: William J. Mitchell (MIT Smart Cities E14-433D)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780262632058
ISBN 10: 0262632055
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 25 August 2000
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William J. Mitchell was the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and directed the Smart Cities research group at MIT's Media Lab.

Reviews for e-topia: ""Urban Life, Jim -- But Not As We Know It""

...e-topia is a good primer for anyone interested in how we are going to inhabit the digital era. -- Lawrence Chua * Bookforum * E-topia offers a brilliant and succinct lesson on how the evolution of information and other technologies has altered the way we build workplaces and communities, manage relationships, and supply our material wants and needs. It unobtrusively lays digital technology into historical and material context, rendering it this way as something not to fear. -- <b>Randall Lyman</b> * <i>San Francisco Bay Guardian</i> *