Discover how digital technology is affecting the bricks and mortar of the places where we live and work. The author, a well-known expert on the applications of digital technology, analyzes its impact on the physical design of housing, stores, offices, libraries, and schools. He also examines the effect on regions and cities, including the hard and soft infrastructures essential to attracting high-wage technology companies. Throughout the book, examples illustrate how digital technology has affected the design of a wide variety of project types and how digital places can be created. Ideal for architects, developers, planners, and technologists who want to be on the cutting edge of design.
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"Horan argues that the future belongs to urban areas that have the cultural and technical infrastructure of digital places... -- William R. Morrish,Professor,University of Minnesota
"Offers realistic suggestions to developers, architects, and planners who are grappling with the challenge of incorporating technology into development" -- Peter S. Rummell, Chairman/CEO, The St. Joe Company
"This book offers important new insights to technologists as well as to architects of space and place." -- John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox
"Offers realistic suggestions to developers, architects, and planners who are grappling with the challenge of incorporating technology into development" -- Peter S. Rummell, Chairman/CEO, The St. Joe Company
"This book offers important new insights to technologists as well as to architects of space and place." -- John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox
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"In Digital Places: Building Our City of Bits, Thomas Horan picks up the story at the dawn of a new century. He can look back on a tumultuous half-decade of digital infrastructure development (not so long, it might seem, but it's half a lifetime in Internet years), and a dot-com bubble of truly giga scale. He has telling examples to show, and a growing body of empirical data to rely upon. Most importantly, he has practical suggestions, grounded in experiences of success and failure so far, for designers and planners who seek to engage the problems and pursue the potentials of the digital electronic era."
From the foreword by William J. Mitchell
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Digital Places: Building Our City of Bits,
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Digital Places presented an ideas of an idealistic world, where 'computers' can be integrated into human's life. The Author proposed many interesting ideas of how our society (cities) can be 'connected' with a ever-changing technology. He also comments on human evolution to be 'connect' with the 'digital' world. This will require great length of dedication and effort from both the government and the private sector. Overall, this book reflect very interesting points where our society can be 'wired' and enhance our life. In the last chapter, the author also present a very intersting and helpful '7 Actions' to lead us to the new height in the 'digital world'. Maybe?, this is the genesis of our 'Brave New World'.
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FOR SEVERAL DECADES, drive-in theaters embodied the widespread enjoyment of two technology-driven products-cars and movies-in a communal fashion we often lament as missing in today's public realm. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
recombinant design, digital place design, recombinant urban design, digital places, masterplanned communities, threshold connections, digital threshold, fluid locations, building our city, community technology centers, digital communities, democratic designs, electronic presence, smart growth, adaptive use, residential design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, United States, North America, Thomas Horan, Department of Commerce, Manuel Castells, New Main Library, Nortel Networks, Silicon Alley, World Wide Web, Yerba Buena Gardens, Broad Street, Cross Point, Harvard Business Review, Metropolitan Chicago, Michael Porter, Mitchell Moss, Ray Oldenburg, Santa Monica, Southern California, Urban Land Institute, Age of the Internet New!
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FOR SEVERAL DECADES, drive-in theaters embodied the widespread enjoyment of two technology-driven products-cars and movies-in a communal fashion we often lament as missing in today's public realm. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
recombinant design, digital place design, recombinant urban design, digital places, masterplanned communities, threshold connections, digital threshold, fluid locations, building our city, community technology centers, digital communities, democratic designs, electronic presence, smart growth, adaptive use, residential design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, United States, North America, Thomas Horan, Department of Commerce, Manuel Castells, New Main Library, Nortel Networks, Silicon Alley, World Wide Web, Yerba Buena Gardens, Broad Street, Cross Point, Harvard Business Review, Metropolitan Chicago, Michael Porter, Mitchell Moss, Ray Oldenburg, Santa Monica, Southern California, Urban Land Institute, Age of the Internet New!
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- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs on page 30, page 52, and page 109
- The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series) by Kevin Lynch on page 22, page 23, and page 109
- Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places by Steve Graham on page 4, page 22, and page 132
- The Information Age, Volumes 1-3: Economy, Society and Culture (Information Age Series) (v. 1-3) by Manuel Castells on page 4, page 22, and page 23
- City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (On Architecture) by William J. Mitchell in Front Matter, page 4, and page 22
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- The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate by Oliver Gillham on page 242, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-cultural Perspectives: Third International Digital Cities Workshop, Amsterdam, ... Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI) by Peter van den Besselaar on page 375, and page 378
- Public Places - Urban Spaces by Matthew Carmona in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conservation in the Internet Age: Threats And Opportunities by James N. Levitt on page 60, and Back Matter
- Designing for a Digital World (Architectural Design) by Prof. Neil Leach on page 56
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