Shannon Mattern: Podcast Interviews

Shannon Mattern

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Shannon Mattern Shannon is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities, Deep Mapping the Media City, and Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media, all published by University of Minnesota Press

Shannon Mattern's Interviews

Alize Arican & Shannon Mattern • 24 Sep 2021 • EN

Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences (Princeton UP, 2021) revea

Paris Marx & Shannon Mattern • 12 Aug 2021 • EN

How Smart is the Smart City? w/ Shannon Mattern

Paris Marx is joined by Shannon Mattern to discuss what we miss when we see the city solely through the lens of the computer, and how other institutions and ways of knowing can help inform richer ways of understanding the city. Shannon Mattern is a professor of anthropology at The New School for Social Research and Pre