“The Strive City of Tomorrow”

Title“The Strive City of Tomorrow”
Year for Search2019
AuthorsWillis, Katharine S.
Secondary AuthorsGraham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe
Secondary TitleHow to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
Pagination1096-1113 [268-74]
Date Published2019
PublisherMeatspace Press
Place PublishedNp
ISBN Number978-0-9955776-7-1
KeywordsEnglish author, Female author
Annotation

A description of Strive City, which is based on combining Ebenezer Howard’s A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) and Strava Metro, a company that monetizes data sets present as a sales pitch for the city. 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 Smart Cities and Communities at the University of Plymouth

Full Text

2019 Willis, Katharine S. “The Strive City of Tomorrow.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 1096-1113 [268-74].

A description of Strive City, which is based on combining Ebenezer Howard’s A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) and Strava Metro, a company that monetizes data sets present as a sales pitch for the city. 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 Smart Cities and Communities at the University of Plymouth.