“A City of Digital Engagement”

Title“A City of Digital Engagement”
Year for Search2019
AuthorsBurns, Ryan
Secondary AuthorsGraham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe
Secondary TitleHow to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
Pagination622--53 [166-73]
Date Published2019
PublisherMeatspace Press
Place PublishedNp
ISBN Number978-0-9955776-7-1
KeywordsCanadian author, Male author
Annotation

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.

Author Note

The Canadian author is a professor of urban geographic information science at the University of Calgary.

Full Text

2019 Burns, Ryan. “A City of Digital Engagement.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern Shaw, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 622--53 [166-73].

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. The Canadian author is a professor of urban geographic information science at the University of Calgary.