"The Most Magical Place”

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Title	"The Most Magical Place”
Year for Search	2019
Authors	Vanky, Anthony
Secondary Authors	Graham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe
Secondary Title	How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
Pagination	289-329 [79-85]
Date Published	2019
Publisher	Meatspace Press
Place Published	Np
ISBN Number	978-0-9955776-7-1
Keywords	Male author, US author
Annotation	Satire on planned cities run by AIs programmed by companies like Disney. 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 was, at the time of publication, an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and now is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan Taubman College.
Full Text	2019 Vanky, Anthony. “The Most Magical Place.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 289-329 [79-85]. Satire on planned cities run by AIs programmed by companies like Disney. 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 was, at the time of publication, an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and now is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan Taubman College.