For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that
big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what
if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for
millennia? In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances
the provocative argument that our urban spaces have been
“smart” and mediated for thousands of years. Offering powerful
new ways of thinking about our cities, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt
goes far beyond the standard historical concepts of origins,
development, revolutions, and the accomplishments of an elite few.
Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and
civic knowledge—and through technologies including the telephone,
telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human
voice—cities have long negotiated a rich exchange between analog
and digital, code and clay, data and dirt, ether and ore.
Mattern’s vivid prose takes readers through a historically and
geographically broad range of stories, scenes, and locations,
synthesizing a new narrative for our urban spaces. Taking media
archaeology to the city’s streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt
reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.
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