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Book Reviews Book Reviews 131 A Book Review Essay: From the City of Bits to e-topia: Taking the Thesis on Digitally Inclusive Regeneration Platforms Full Circle by Mark Deakin City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn by William John Mitchell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995) Pp. 225, $100.00 (Hardcover) e-topia: Urban Life, Jim – But Not as We Know It by William John Mitchell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999) Pp. 192, $45.00 (Hardcover) Me11: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William John Mitchell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004) Pp. 269, $15.95 (Paper) Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City by William John Mitchell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005) Pp. 234, $17.95 (Paper) William Mitchell’s 1995 book, City and the physical that makes every- of Bits, set out a vision of urban life thing worth playing for. This is literally done to bits, left fragmented, because he sees this “coming and in danger of coming unstuck. His together” in “the meþþ of the next book e-topia, provided the cyborg-self” as something which counter-point to this vision of urban cities need in order to become net- life and posited a scenario where worked and embed the intelligence the city is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

Book Reviews

Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 14 (3): 9 – Dec 1, 2007
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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright The Society of Urban Technology
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1466-1853
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1063-0732
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10.1080/10630730801933119
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Book Reviews 131 A Book Review Essay: From the City of Bits to e-topia: Taking the Thesis on Digitally Inclusive Regeneration Platforms Full Circle by Mark Deakin City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn by William John Mitchell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995) Pp. 225, $100.00 (Hardcover) e-topia: Urban Life, Jim – But Not as We Know It by William John Mitchell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999) Pp. 192, $45.00 (Hardcover) Me11: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William John Mitchell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004) Pp. 269, $15.95 (Paper) Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City by William John Mitchell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005) Pp. 234, $17.95 (Paper) William Mitchell’s 1995 book, City and the physical that makes every- of Bits, set out a vision of urban life thing worth playing for. This is literally done to bits, left fragmented, because he sees this “coming and in danger of coming unstuck. His together” in “the meþþ of the next book e-topia, provided the cyborg-self” as something which counter-point to this vision of urban cities need in order to become net- life and posited a scenario where worked and embed the intelligence the city is

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Journal of Urban TechnologyTaylor & Francis

Published: Dec 1, 2007

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