This book is enlightening for urban studies in the future. Clearly as it suggested the urbanist shall be (able to be) more sensitive to non physical spaces as well as 'conventional' spatial interventions. However it is also quesionable in what way we can catch up with the fast, unpredictable development of internet (along with other h-tech industries which has already gone far beyond our imigination), a review on the developed network is self-evidently far from enough. In reality internet users,at the same moment,urban space users learn cyber-space by clicking, browsing, online-purchasing rather than reading, apparently it is more effective and empirically more understandable. This fact makes theories about cyber-society more or less, inevitbly obsolete and seemingly less neccessary. After all the book is intelligent especially when it explicitly, or implicitly indicates the interaction (possible interations) between urban space and cyber-space.
Author(s): William J. Mitchell
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 271
0262633132......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 8
PROLOGUE......Page 12
1 BOUNDARIES/NETWORKS......Page 18
2 CONNECTING CREATURES......Page 30
3 WIRELESS BIPEDS......Page 52
4 DOWNSIZED DRY GOODS......Page 74
5 SHEDDING ATOMS......Page 94
6 DIGITAL DOUBLIN’......Page 114
7 ELECTRONIC MNEMOTECHNICS......Page 124
8 FOOTLOOSE FABRICATION......Page 142
9 POST-SEDENTARY SPACE......Page 154
10 AGAINST PROGRAM......Page 170
11 CYBORG AGONISTES......Page 180
12 LOGIC PRISONS......Page 200
EPILOGUE......Page 214
NOTES......Page 224
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 262
INDEX......Page 264
