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Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure

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A guided tour of the physical Web, as seen on, above, and below the city’s streets
 
What does the Web appear to be?
 
It’s the single most essentail aspect of up to date life, and yet, for many people, the Web looks like an open browser, or the black mirrors of our phones and computers. But in Networks of New York, Ingrid Burrington lifts our eyes from our screens to the streets, showing us that the Web is far and wide around us, at all times—we just have to know where to look.
 
The use of New York as her point of reference and more than fifty color illustrations as her map, Burrington takes us on a tour of the urban network: She decodes spray-painted sidewalk markings, reveals the history at the back of cryptic manhole covers, shuffles us past subway cameras and giant carrier hotels, and peppers our journey with background stories about the NYPD’s surveillance apparatus, twentieth-century telecommunication monopolies, high frequency trading on Wall Street, and the downtown building that houses the offices of both Google and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
 
From a rising star within the field of tech jounalism, Networks of New York is a smart, funny, and beautifully designed guide to the eternally fascinating networks of urban Web infrastructure.

The Web, Burrington shows us, is hiding in plain sight.

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