E-Tbpia: Urban Li~, Jim--But Not As 1~ Know It b y W i l l i a m J. M i t c h e l l Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262133555 Reviewed by Chris Bodnar Carleton UniversiO~Journalism andMass CommunicationProgram art visionary, part pragmatic, William Mitchell approaches the subject of cities in the new information economy and society in his new book e-topia: Urban Life, Jim--But Not As We Know It. He approaches his subject with an eloquence of precision, devoid of academic utterances and jargon. The person, who five years ago in his book City of Bits predicted that it may, one day, be possible to send e-mail from your plane seat, explains how telecommunications infrastructure must now be viewed as an essential and integral part of the city and its planning--and vice versa. Mitchell states a bold outlook in the book's opening lines: "The city--as understood by urban theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs--can no longer hang together and function as it could in earlier times. It's due to bits; they've done it in. Traditional urban patterns cannot coexist with cyberspace." Within this context, Mitchell, the Dean of the
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E-topia: urban life, Jim---but not as we know it
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