Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin are both Lecturers at the Centre for Urban Technology, Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle.
It is splendid and will become mandatory reading on my courses at Berkeley. I am sure it is going to become a classic. . -Manuel Castells, University of California, Berkeley ... a tour de force. The authors show by example that electronics has not made clear thinking obsolete or unnecessary. If you want an idea of what may be going on with current technologies in cities, this is the book to buy and read. - Planning Magazine Any geographer seriously interested in the future of urban settlement in the US or across the world will gain much from a careful reading of this book...crisp, clear, and engaging. - Professional Geographer ... a book worth absorbing by all who have an interest in what our cities will look like in the second half of the 21st century. - Habitat Magazine The book demonstrates the importance and the possibility of careful theoretical reflection...[It] allows the reader to make sense ofdiverse and competing arguments in new ways.