“Grindr City”
| Title | “Grindr City” |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Brown, Gavin |
| Secondary Authors | Graham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe |
| Secondary Title | How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables |
| Pagination | 553-69 [141-48] |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Meatspace Press |
| Place Published | Np |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-9955776-7-1 |
| Keywords | English author, Transgender author |
| Annotation | Grindr City starts as an app for gay and bi men to chat and meet, and it evolves into an all-consuming way of life, which then evolves into an actual 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 author is Professor of Geography at the University of Leicester who uses the pronouns they and their. |
| Full Text | 2019 Brown, Gavin. “Grindr 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), 553-69 [141-48]. Grindr City starts as an app for gay and bi men to chat and meet, and it evolves into an all-consuming way of life, which then evolves into an actual 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 author is Professor of Geography at the University of Leicester who uses the pronouns they and their. |
