TY - ABST T1 - “A City of Digital Engagement” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ryan Burns ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by turning a city over to Instagram. 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.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A City of the People, For the People, By the People” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ayona Datta ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

In the story, an Indian city noted for its corruption is taken over by Whatsapp and “is owned and managed by a commercial company for private property” (1336 [341]). 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.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Civic Method" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Claudel ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After an unexplained collapse, many cities are run on the model of the book publisher Elsevier, which is in competition with cities run by Springer, Taylor and Francis, and the rapidly growing Routledge. Each city completely controls every aspect of its citizens lives. The only threat on the horizon is in the Midwest of the United States where Open Access is growing. 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.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Col and the Blackouts” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jessica Foley A1 - Rob Kitchin ED - Mark Graham ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

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.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Mearspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cryps, Chains and Cranks” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Zook ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. 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.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER -