“So You Want to Live in a Pivot City”
| Title | “So You Want to Live in a Pivot City” |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Barns, Sarah |
| Secondary Authors | Graham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe |
| Secondary Title | How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables |
| Pagination | 749-85 [206-15] |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Meatspace Press |
| Place Published | Np |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-9955776-7-1 |
| Keywords | Australian author, Female author |
| Annotation | The story takes place in Sydney, Australia, which, due to climate change and environmental degradation had lost its tax base and agreed to cooperate with Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google, to create an experimental surveilled city that would focus on reducing the cities carbon footprint. This requires that every action by every resident be tracked an evaluated positively or negatively. Those who fall below the threshold determined by the city can be expelled, losing not merely the right to live in the city but their property in 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 Australian female author is a digital strategy consultant, producer, and researcher. |
| Author Note | The Australian female author is a digital strategy consultant, producer, and researcher. |
| Full Text | 2019 Barns, Sarah. “So You Want to Live in a Pivot 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), 749-85 [206-15]. The story takes place in Sydney, Australia, which, due to climate change and environmental degradation had lost its tax base and agreed to cooperate with Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google, to create an experimental surveilled city that would focus on reducing the cities carbon footprint. This requires that every action by every resident be tracked an evaluated positively or negatively. Those who fall below the threshold determined by the city can be expelled, losing not merely the right to live in the city but their property in 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 Australian female author is a digital strategy consultant, producer, and researcher. |
