Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Urban Cryptographer 1
Part I: The Case for an Urban Cryptology 17
1 Written in Stone 19
2 Write Me a City 39
3 Place Is the Code 63
Part II: Urban Combinatorics 79
4 Urban Multiplicity 81
5 A Thousand Insides 101
6 The Dissimulated City 117
Part III: Crypto-Technics 127
7 Writing the Block 129
8 Bitcoin Cities 139
9 Images in the City 153
10 Hashing the City 175
Part IV: Cryptography at the Limits 189
11 Cyberattacks 191
12 Hidden Measures 207
13 Hiding in the Multiverse 225
14 Closure: The Urban Cryptanalyst 249
Notes 253
Bibliography 283
Index 311

About the Author

Richard Coyne is Professor and Chair of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Mood and Mobility, The Tuning of Place, Cornucopia Limited, and Technoromanticism (all MIT Press).