City Tech
20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovations Changing the Urban Landscape
Published on 15. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-55844-453-9 (ISBN)
Description
Rob Walker investigates the new technologies afoot and their implications for planners, policymakers, residents, and the virtual and literal landscapes of the cities we call home.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
color photos and figures throughout
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
636 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55844-453-9 (9781558444539)
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Person
Rob Walker is a journalist and columnist covering technology, design, business, and other subjects. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, Walker has also written for Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, Wired, Fortune, GQ, Fast Company, Design Observer, Marketplace, and many other outlets. He writes the City Tech column for Land Lines, the magazine of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and is the author of The Art of Noticing (Knopf 2019), Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (Random House 2008), and Letters from New Orleans (Garrett County Press 2005). He is coeditor of Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things (Fantagraphics 2012) and serves on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.