“A City of the People, For the People, By the People”

Submitted by LT_Sargent on Thu, 08/19/2021 - 15:49
Title“A City of the People, For the People, By the People”
Year for Search2019
AuthorsDatta, Ayona
Secondary AuthorsGraham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe
Secondary TitleHow to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
Pagination1295-1336 [334-41]
Date Published2019
PublisherMeatspace Press
Place PublishedNp
ISBN Number978-0-9955776-7-1
KeywordsEnglish author, Female author, Indian author, US author
Annotation

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.

Author Note

The female author is Professor of Human Geography at University College London. Her first degree is in Architecture from the University of Delhi, followed by an MPhil in Environmental Design from the University of Canterbury, and a PhD in Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State University.
Full Text

2019 Datta, Ayona. “A City of the People, For the People, By the People.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 1295-1336 [334-41].

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. The female author is Professor of Human Geography at University College London. Her first degree is in Architecture from the University of Delhi, followed by an MPhil in Environmental Design from the University of Canterbury, and a PhD in Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State University.