“The Semantic City”
| Title | “The Semantic City” |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Iliadis, Andrew |
| Secondary Authors | Graham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe |
| Secondary Title | How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables |
| Pagination | 787-870 [216-30] |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Meatspace Press |
| Place Published | Np |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-9955776-7-1 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a future where Philadelphia has contract with Apple for its citizens, including teenagers, to have a Siri implant that provides them with a constant flow of information, including ads. 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 author teaches in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University. |
| Full Text | 2019 Iliadis, Andrew. “The Semantic City.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 787-870 [216-30]. The story is set in a future where Philadelphia has contract with Apple for its citizens, including teenagers, to have a Siri implant that provides them with a constant flow of information, including ads. 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 author teaches in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University. |
