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The information city, like an updated version of the garden city, presents an encompassing vision of an ideal metropolis. Instead of harmonious integration with a green landscape, this city fuses with the organic flow of information technology.

Yet in the process of wiring our cities toward a global geography, we discover a relationship between urban space and information that is about more than the blissful exchange of data.

Essay presented and published through the Visual Knowledges conference at the University of Edinburgh, 2003.

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