William J. Mitchell’s scientific contributions

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City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn
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May 1995

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William J. Mitchell

Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. William Mitchell makes extensive use of practical examples and illustrations in a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture and urbanism in the context of the digital telecommunications revolution, the ongoing miniaturization of electronics, the commodification of bits, and the growing domination of software over materialized form.

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... Such design involves ways of conceptualizing and working with materials that "perform" in terms of a variety of structural, chemical, mechanical, and computational effects as well as the pace and orchestration of these effects during fabrication and, long after, in contexts of use. This is no longer selection from a stable and standing reserve of material resources that can be manipulated hands-on within the design studio; rather, these are designs that can span the spatial-temporal scales of "atoms and bits" through to "infobahns" with global reach (Mitchell, 1996). ...

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Design and Other Ways of Knowing the Future
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn
  • Citing Book

  • May 1995

William J. Mitchell