It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Code and Clay, Data and Dirt by Shannon Christine Mattern
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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.
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt by Shannon Christine Mattern is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Code and Clay, Data and Dirt aloud.
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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