E-topia (Pocket)
avMitchell, William J
ISBN: 9780262632058 - UTGIVEN: 2000-10-11The global digital network is a whole new urban infrastructure--one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power grids, and telephone networks did in the past. In this lucid, invigorating book, William Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and i[...]
Poetics of Gardens, The (Övrig)
avCharles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, William Turnbull
ISBN: 9780262631532 - UTGIVEN: 1993-10-01There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a [...]
The Last Dinosaur Book (Inbunden)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780226532042 - UTGIVEN: 1998-11This text addresses the question of how dinosaurs moved from natural extinction to pop culture resurrection, exploring the animal's place in our lives and the source of its popular appeal. In tracing the cultural family tree of the dinosaur there is discovered a creature of striking flexibility, lin[...]
Landscape and Power (Pocket)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780226532059 - UTGIVEN: 200204The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This second editi[...]
Picture Theory (Pocket)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780226532325 - UTGIVEN: 199509In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Although we have many words about pictures, Mitchell notes that we do not yet have a satisfactory theory of them. What we have is a variety of di[...]
Animal Rites (Pocket)
avCary Wolfe, William J. Mitchell, Cary Wolfe
ISBN: 9780226905143 - UTGIVEN: 200302Now that supposedly distinguishing marks of humanity, from reasoning to tool use, have been found in other species, how can we justify discriminating against nonhuman animals solely on the basis of their species? And how must cultural studies and critical practices change to do justice to "others" w[...]
Reinventing the Automobile (Inbunden)
avWilliam J. Mitchell, Chris Borroni-bird, Lawrence D. Burns
ISBN: 9780262013826 - UTGIVEN: 2010-03-31How to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide-emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun.[...]
ME++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City (Övrig)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780262134347 - UTGIVEN: 2003-11-04With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi--the scaling up of networks and the scaling d[...]
Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century (Övrig)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780262516112 - UTGIVEN: 2011-03-11In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990s and and driven by a pent-up demand for new space, MIT's ambitious rebuilding produced five major works of architecture: [...]
Logic of Architecture, The: Design, Computation and Cognition (Övrig)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780262631167 - UTGIVEN: 1990-06-20The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, systematic, and modern treatment of the logical foundations of design thinking. It provides a detailed discussion of languages of architectural form, their specification by means of formal grammars, their interpretation, and their role in structu[...]
The Reconfigured Eye (Häftad)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780262631600 - UTGIVEN: 199409"An intelligent and readable approach to the digitization of images...A useful overview of a critical subject."-- New York Times Book ReviewEnhanced? Or faked? Today the very idea of photographic veracity is being radically challenged by the emerging technology of digital image manipulation and synt[...]
ME++ (Häftad)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780262633130 - UTGIVEN: 2004-10With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi--the scaling up of networks and the scaling d[...]
Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City (Övrig)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780262633222 - UTGIVEN: 2005-10-21The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. "Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater produces a dramatically different effect from barking the same word to a squad of soldiers with guns," he observes. In Placing Words, Mitchell looks at the ways in which ur[...]
World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture (Övrig)
avWilliam J. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780262633642 - UTGIVEN: 2008-09-02Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the sturdy Tuscan and Doric types traditionally signify masculinity, the slim and elegant Ionic and Corinthian kinds read as feminine. Words are ofte[...]
