From: "Daniel C. Stevenson" <daniels@the-tech.mit.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 1995 01:11:50 GMT
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The City of Bits Web site is an imaginative, compelling, and dynamic
companion to the "analog" book by William J. Mitchell, Dean of the
School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. The site debuts this month
with the publication of the book by the MIT Press.
The graphically rich site contains the full text of the book,
conveniently organized and well-hyperlinked for practical and
efficient browsing. The in-text hyperlinks and the "Surf Sites"
companion catalog of topic-specific links, as well as a section of
"Reader's Choice Web Sites" submissions, allow readers to customize
their browsing itinerary for either casual or calculated exploration
of the Web.
A useful search engine and a unique public forum environment -- which
invites ongoing discourse between readers and author -- offer browsers
an interactive adventure at the intersection of printed and electronic
media.
The book itself is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city,
a largely invisible but increasingly important system of virtual
spaces interconnected by the emerging information superhighway. It is
a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture
and urbanism in the context of the digital telecommunications
revolution, the ongoing miniaturiation of electronics, the
commodification of bits, and the growing domination of software over
materialized form.
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