As New York City and Greater Washington, DC, prepared for the arrival of Amazon’s new secondary headquarters, Torontonians opened a section of their ...

Shannon Mattern
Shannon Mattern is a professor at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of The New Downtown Library (2007), Deep Mapping the Media City (2015), and Code and Clay, Data and Dirt (2017). She contributes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures to Places Journal.
The World Silicon Valley Made
A repairman at the Shenzhen electronic bazaar treks from stall to stall, gathering inexpensive camera modules, casings, glass displays, batteries, and motherboards, and then, with only a screwdriver ...