Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban by Ingrid Burrington

By Ingrid Burrington

A guided journey of the actual web, as noticeable on, above, and under the city’s streets
 
What does the net seem like?
 
It’s the one so much essentail point of contemporary lifestyles, and but, for lots of people, the web feels like an open browser, or the black mirrors of our telephones and pcs. yet in Networks of recent York, Ingrid Burrington lifts our eyes from our monitors to the streets, exhibiting us that the net is in all places round us, the entire time—we simply need to understand the place to seem.
 
utilizing long island as her element of reference and greater than fifty colour illustrations as her map, Burrington takes us on a travel of the urban network: She decodes spray-painted sidewalk markings, unearths the background at the back of cryptic manhole covers, shuffles us earlier subway cameras and colossal service inns, and peppers our trip with heritage tales concerning the NYPD's surveillance equipment, twentieth-century telecommunication monopolies, excessive frequency buying and selling on Wall road, and the downtown development that homes the places of work of either Google and the FBI's Joint Terrorism activity Force.
 
From a emerging celebrity within the box of tech jounalism, Networks of latest York is a wise, humorous, and wonderfully designed consultant to the ceaselessly interesting networks of city net infrastructure.

The net, Burrington exhibits us, is hiding in simple sight.

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