{"product_id":"cryptographic-city-isbn-9780262545679","title":"Cryptographic City","description":"\u003cb\u003eCryptography’s essential role in the functioning of the city, viewed against the backdrop of modern digital life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCryptography is not new to the city; in fact, it is essential to its functioning. For as long as cities have existed, communications have circulated, often in full sight, but with their messages hidden. In \u003ci\u003eCryptographic City\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Coyne explains how cryptography runs deep within the structure of the city. He shows the extent to which cities are built on secrets, their foundations now reinforced by digital encryption and cryptocurrency platforms. He also uses cryptography as a lens through which to inspect smart cities and what they deliver. Coyne sets his investigation into the cryptographic city against the backdrop of the technologies, claims, and challenges of the smart city.\u003cbr\u003eCryptography provides the means by which communications within and between citizens and devices are kept secure. Coyne shows how all of the smart city innovations—from smart toasters to public transportation networks—are enabled by secure financial transactions, data flows, media streaming, and communications made possible by encryption. Without encryption, he says, communications between people and digital devices would be exposed for anyone to see, hack, and misdirect. He explains the relevant technicalities of cryptography and describes the practical difference it makes to frame cities as cryptographic. Interwoven throughout the book are autobiographical anecdotes, insights from Coyne’s teaching practice, and historical reports, making it accessible to the general reader.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Urban Cryptographer 1\u003cbr\u003ePart I: The Case for an Urban Cryptology 17\u003cbr\u003e1 Written in Stone 19\u003cbr\u003e2 Write Me a City 39\u003cbr\u003e3 Place Is the Code 63\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Urban Combinatorics 79\u003cbr\u003e4 Urban Multiplicity 81\u003cbr\u003e5 A Thousand Insides 101\u003cbr\u003e6 The Dissimulated City 117\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Crypto-Technics 127\u003cbr\u003e7 Writing the Block 129\u003cbr\u003e8 Bitcoin Cities 139\u003cbr\u003e9 Images in the City 153\u003cbr\u003e10 Hashing the City 175\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Cryptography at the Limits 189\u003cbr\u003e11 Cyberattacks 191\u003cbr\u003e12 Hidden Measures 207\u003cbr\u003e13 Hiding in the Multiverse 225\u003cbr\u003e14 Closure: The Urban Cryptanalyst 249\u003cbr\u003eNotes 253\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 283\u003cbr\u003eIndex 311“Coyne exposes the how the affordances of the cryptographic city reproduce urban power and shape modern life. An essential read!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRob Kitchin, Professor, Maynooth University; author of \u003ci\u003eCode\/Space: Software and Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Coyne’s fascinating exploration of cryptography uncovers its hidden role in the city from a cultural perspective, offering a timely reflection on how code shapes not just the digital, but also the material and built world.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eKatharine Willis, Professor of Smart Cities and Communities, University of Plymouth; co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Smart Cities\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Coyne takes us on a modern day flaneur’s walk through the city viewed through the lens of cryptography, seamlessly melding the architectural and the algorithmic to shine light into their secretive shadows.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAlan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London\u003c\/b\u003eRichard Coyne\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor and Chair of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMood and Mobility\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tuning of Place\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCornucopia Limited\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTechnoromanticism\u003c\/i\u003e (all MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301930193125,"sku":"NP9780262545679","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545679.jpg?v=1767724313","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cryptographic-city-isbn-9780262545679","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}