The Mobile City regulary reviews literature that deals with the main themes we are covering.

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• 27 July 2011 : Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell – Divining a digital future (2011)
  

  In Divining a Digital Future (2011), computer scientist Paul Dourish (Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine) and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell (Intel Interaction and Experience Research Lab) [More...]

  
  
• 1 March 2011 : Review: Aurigi & De Cindio (2008) – Augmented urban spaces
  

  Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (2008). Augmented urban spaces: articulating the physical and electronic city. Aldershot: Ashgate. (The introduction is a free read from the website). This book from 2008 had [More...]

  
  
• 8 August 2009 : review: Stephen Graham – The Cybercities Reader (2004)
  

  In The Cybercities Reader (2004) Stephen Graham - at that time Professor of Urban Technology in Newcastle - bundles a great number of seminal texts about the intersections of digital [More...]

  
  
• 8 May 2009 : review: Kevin Lynch – The Image of the City
  

  As part of a new effort of The Mobile City to compile an ever-expanding overview of literature relevant to our themes, I will review this oldie-goldie published in 1960. I [More...]

  
  
• 24 February 2009 : Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: a matter of ‘U-City’ or ‘U-Citizens?’
  

  I just finished reading Marcus Foth’s Handbook of research on Urban Informatics. It’s an edited volume as thick as a fist, packed with essays that when taken altogether give a [More...]

  
  
• 23 January 2009 : Review: “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities” by Mimi Ito et al.
  

    Mimi Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Ken Anderson have an interesting chapter in the edited volume by Rich Ling & Scott Campbell (2009) "The reconstruction of space and time: mobile communication [More...]

  
  
• 12 September 2008 : The Big Sort, The Uses of Disorder and mobile media
  

  I just read two books - written almost 40 years apart - that signal the same urban problem: cities and towns in the United States are becoming increasingly segregated into [More...]

  
  
• 18 July 2008 : Scott McQuire’s The Media City
  

  I just finished reading the highly interesting book The Media City by Scott McQuire. It is a philosophical approach to the role of media in the experience of the city. [More...]