e-topia Urban Life, Jim-But Not As We Know It

The 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 its implications for our future daily lives. He argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and proposes strategies for the creation of cities that not only will be sustainable but will make economic, social, and cultural sense in an electronically interconnected and global world.

William J. Mitchell is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of City of Bits, The Reconfigured Eye, and The Logic of Architecture and coauthor of The Poetics of Gardens (all published by MIT Press).