In the story, a city council is taken over by Mobile Network Operator, based on Vodaphone, and a section is cut off from any access to the internet. That section develops its own culture and language. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
BT - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables C6 -The Irish female author is Assistant Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology.
C7 - 2019 CY - Np DA - 01/2019 LA - eng N2 -In the story, a city council is taken over by Mobile Network Operator, based on Vodaphone, and a section is cut off from any access to the internet. That section develops its own culture and language. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
PB - Mearspace Press PP - Np PY - 2019 SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 SP - 1196 EP - 22] T2 - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables TI - “The Col and the Blackouts” ER -