A city is not a computer : other urban intelligences / Shannon Mattern.

Main entry:

Mattern, Shannon Christine, author.

Title & Author:

A city is not a computer : other urban intelligences / Shannon Mattern.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

x, 187 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Places books ; [2]

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : cities, trees & algorithms -- City console -- A city is not a computer -- Public knowledge -- Maintenance codes -- Conclusion : platforms, grafts & arboreal intelligence.

Summary:

This book offers a reassessment of "smart cities" and reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers. -- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

0691208050
9780691208053
9780692265750 (e-book)

Subject:

City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Smart cities Social aspects.
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes intelligentes Aspect social.
urban sociology.
Stadsplanning.
Stadssociologie.

Added entries:

Places books ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316870
Call No.: 316870
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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