Benjamin Fraser is Professor and Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University, USA.

• IntroductionPART I: LAYERS OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CITY1. What is the City?2. Art and the Urban ExperiencePART II: DISCIPLINARY/DIGITAL DEBATES AND THE URBAN PHENOMENON3. The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the Digital Sciences4. What is Urban Totality?PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF DIGITAL CITIES5. What are Digital Cities?6. Thick Mapping as Urban MetaphorEpilogue: Bridged Cities (A Calvino-esque Tale)

'Making a strong case for interdisciplinary layering as a way to represent the many layers - physical, social, aesthetic - of the city, Fraser's visionary book is as much a meditation on the future of the digital humanities itself as it is on the city as an object of humanistic inquiry. He cogently charts a course for how humanists will employ thick mapping as a way to practice the digital humanities.' David J. Staley, Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Design, Director of the Goldberg Center at The Ohio State University, USA