@booklet {11251, title = {{\textquotedblleft}EasyCity{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {330-445 [87-99]}, publisher = {Meatspace Press}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The EasyJet version of a city as seen by a couple wanting to rent an inexpensive EasyFlat in EasyCity, a new suburb being built near the airport that EasyJet has renamed to suggest it is closer to a major city than it actually is and going through all the add-on extras. 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. The EasyJet version of a city as seen by a couple wanting to rent an inexpensive EasyFlat in EasyCity, a new suburb being built near the airport that EasyJet has renamed to suggest it is closer to a major city than it actually is and going through all the add-on extras. 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.

}, keywords = {Belgian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-9955776-7-1}, author = {Manuel B. Aalbers}, editor = {Mark Graham and Rob Kitchin and Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw} }