“Cryps, Chains and Cranks”

Title“Cryps, Chains and Cranks”
Year for Search2019
AuthorsZook, Matthew
Secondary AuthorsGraham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe
Secondary TitleHow to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
Pagination205-30 [57-64]
Date Published2019
PublisherMeatspace Press
Place PublishedNp
ISBN Number978-0-9955776-7-1
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The dystopia created by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. 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 is University Research Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky.

Full Text

2019 Zook, Matthew. “Cryps, Chains and Cranks.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 205-30 [57-64]. 

The dystopia created by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. 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 is University Research Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky.