“The Strive City of Tomorrow”
Title | “The Strive City of Tomorrow” |
Year for Search | 2019 |
Authors | Willis, Katharine S. |
Secondary Authors | Graham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe |
Secondary Title | How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables |
Pagination | 1096-1113 [268-74] |
Date Published | 2019 |
Publisher | Meatspace Press |
Place Published | Np |
ISBN Number | 978-0-9955776-7-1 |
Keywords | English 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. |