City of Bits

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City of Bits is written by William J. Mitchell and published by MIT Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0262297175 (ISBN 10) and 9780262297172 (ISBN 13).

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.