Networks of New York

An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure

Paperback, 112 pages

English language

Published Aug. 30, 2016 by Melville House.

ISBN:
9781612195421
3 stars (1 review)

With more than 50 color illustrations, Burrington takes us on a tour whereby she decodes spray-painted marks on sidewalks and the cryptic designs on manhole covers, shuffles us past subway cameras, and offers stories about police surveillance, telecommunications monopolies, high-frequency trading on Wall Street, and the building that houses both Google and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.

1 edition

A true field guide to chalk scribble, not just for NYC

3 stars

A charming guide to network infrastructure, in the style of a nature field guide, by a self-proclaimed artist-not-techie. Like a good field guide, the sketches highlight the visual differences between, say, a public Wi-Fi access point and an automated license-plate reader.

Atlas Obscura wrote the review that I'd like to have written: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mapping-the-hidden-structures-of-new-york-citys-internet-networks