Shannon Mattern, “A City is Not a Computer.”

Based on Shannon Mattern, “A City is Not a Computer.”
1a. In a ~150 word paragraph, explain the central problem or question driving Mattern’s paper. Please provide a
quotation from the paper as part of your explanation.
1b. Explain Mattern’s discussion of Lewis Mumford’s conception of the city as “an assemblage of media forms” and
why this idea of Mumford’s is relevant to Mattern’s argument.
1c. Explain Mattern’s comment that seeing “city as an information-processing machine” comes with “the risk of
reifying and essentializing information, even depoliticizing it.”