Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
Shannon Mattern’s Code and Clay, Data and Dirt examines five thousand years of urban media, bringing material and digital perspectives into conversation. The book considers how cities and systems of information have developed together, offering a wide-ranging historical view of the media that shape urban life.
About This Book
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt explores the long relationship between cities and media.
Shannon Mattern considers how urban life has been shaped by systems for recording, organizing, transmitting, and interpreting information.
Spanning five thousand years, the book brings together material and digital perspectives on the development of urban media.
It offers a broad study of the ways code, clay, data, and dirt can illuminate the history of cities.
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