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An Instagram post which features the cover of the book as well as a description of the book and Olafur Eliasson's contribution. --Instagram post, Studio Olafur Eliasson, https: //www.instagram.com/p/BrUozjLH5Bo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The book includes images and descriptions of many exceptional contemporary concepts, displays and structures designed by leading architects, scientists, artists, engineers, geographers, urbanists, gamers, gardeners, filmmakers and musicians who are reimagining life on our planet--and elsewhere. --review, International Society for Digital Earth, http: //www.digitalearth-isde.org/ In this extract from her recent book on the subject, Davina Jackson surveys how satellites and data-driven design tools are redefining what it means to manage our environment. --feature, Foreground magazine, https: //www.foreground.com.au/technology/data-cities-how-post-internet-technology-is-changing-the-way-we-design-our-world/ Author Davina Jackson discusses how this century's Earth observation science paradigm is shaping our world's data cities, with reference to her new book. --interview, The Conversation magazine, https: //theconversation.com/digital-earth-the-paradigm-now-shaping-our-worlds-data-cities-104938 This book is amazing in that it tries to bring together modern science and technology and architecture. --Prof Arup Dasgupt, an Indian-European geospatial expert, review in Geospatial World magazine

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Dr Davina Jackson is a Sydney-based writer who writes on creative applications of technology in urban contexts, and on architecture, design and geographic history. During the past decade she has produced books, exhibitions, websites, and articles on themes she named ’smart light cities’, ‘viral internationalism’, ‘data cities’ and ‘virtual nations’. A founder of the city light festivals in Sydney and Singapore, she edited the first comprehensive survey of international contributions to the Global Earth Observation Systems and Digital Earth projects.

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