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E-topia : "Urban life, Jim--but not as we know it"

Author: William J Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new form of 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 book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and its implications for our future daily  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William J Mitchell
ISBN: 0262133555 9780262133555 0262632055 9780262632058
OCLC Number: 41118348
Description: 184 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Prologue: urban requiem -- March of the meganets -- Telematics takes command -- Software: new genius of the place -- Computers for living in -- Homes and neighborhoods -- Getting together -- Reworking the workplace -- The teleserviced city -- The economy of presence -- Lean and green.
Responsibility: William J. Mitchell.
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"The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new form of 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 book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and its implications for our future daily lives."--BOOK JACKET.

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