“Let’s Make this City and Urban Project Everybody Wants”

Title“Let’s Make this City and Urban Project Everybody Wants”
Year for Search2019
AuthorsMattern, Shannon
Secondary AuthorsGraham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe
Secondary TitleHow to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
Pagination 1337-57 [342-47]
Date Published2019
PublisherMeatspace Press
Place PublishedNp
ISBN Number978-0-9955776-7-1
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Baltimore is taken over by the seed accelerator Y Combinator. 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 Anthropology at The New School.

Full Text

2019 Mattern, Shannon. “Let’s Make this City and Urban Project Everybody Wants.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 1337-57 [342-47].

Baltimore is taken over by the seed accelerator Y Combinator. 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 Anthropology at The New School.