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An edition of How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables (2019)

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

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The idea behind the book is to ask what would it be like to live in a city administered using the business model of Amazon (or Apple, IKEA, Pornhub, Spotify, Tinder, Uber, and more), or a city where critical public services are delivered by these companies?

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350

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Table of Contents

AMAZON. How to Run a City Like Amazon by Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw
Page 1
ACXIOM. You're Entitled to What the Data Says You Deserve by Rob Kitchin
Page 13
ALPHABET. City of Loops by Mark Graham
Page 101
ANT FINANCIAL. I_am_the_score_machine by Jathan Sadowski
Page 145
APPLE. Welcome to Jobstown Sophia Maalsen and Kurt Iveson
Page 177
BITCOIN. Cryps, Chains and Cranks Matthew Zook
Page 205
CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA. The Unseen by Jeremy Crampton and Kara C. Hoover
Page 234
DELIVEROO. Too Much Fulfilment by Lizzie Richardson
Page 266
DISNEY. The Most Magical Place on Earth by Anthony Vanky
Page 289
EASYJET. EasyCity by Manuel Aalbers
Page 330
ELSEVIER. The Civic Method by Matthew Claudel
Page 446
ETHEREUM. Registering Eve by Alison Powell
Page 475
GOOGLE ADWORDS. Subprime Language and the Crash by Pip Thornton
Page 504
GOOGLE ARLens. Seeing the City through Google's Eyes by Leighton Evans
Page 529
GOOGLE FIBER. There Is No Such a Thing as Free Infrastructure by Tooran Alizadeh, Edward Helderop and Tony Grubesic
Page 539
GRINDR. Being Xtra in Grindr City by Gavin Brown
Page 553
GROUNDTRUTH. Monetizing Movement by Harrison Smith
Page 570
IKEA. Flat-pack Smart Urbanism by Martin Dodge
Page 606
INSTAGRAM. A City of Digital Engagement by Ryan Burns
Page 622
PALINTIR. Save the Shire™ by Jennifer Gabyrs
Page 654
PINTEREST. Curating a City by Gillian Rose
Page 676
PORNHUB. Premium Places by Dietmar Offenhuber
Page 706
SHOTSPOTTER. Safe and Secure Living in Camden by Alan Wiig
Page 725
SIDEWALK LABS. So You Want to Live in a Pivot City? by Sarah Barns
Page 749
SIRI. The Semantic City by Andrew Iliadis
Page 787
SNAPCHAT. Youthful Indiscretions by Monica Stephens
Page 872
SONY PLAYSTATION. Playmentalities by Alberto Vanolo
Page 941
SPOTIFY. Streamers by Cian O'Callaghan
Page 955
STARBUCKS. Potholes and Pumpkin Spice by Kalpana Shankar and Glenn Kaufmann
Page 1035
STRAVA. The Strive City of Tomorrow by Katharine Willis
Page 1100
TAKEALOT. The Allure of the Frictionless City by Nancy Odendaal
Page 1114
TESLA. Cities Need Mass Transit by Harvey Miller
Page 1123
TINDER. Swipe Right to Welcome, Left to Reject by Linnet Taylor
Page 1139
TWITTER. Seeking Follows by James Ash
Page 1161
UBER. The Seduction of UberCity by Agnieszka Leszczynski and Rob Kitchin
Page 1179
VODAFONE. The Col and the Black-Outs by Jessica Foley
Page 1196
WHAT3WORDS. Address.Error.503 by Jim Thatcher
Page 1245
WHATSAPP. A City of the People, for the People, by the People by Ayona Datta
Page 1295
YCOMBINATOR. Let's Make this City an Urban Product Everybody Wants by Shannon Mattern
Page 1337

Edition Notes

Published in
London, United Kingdom
Copyright Date
2019

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR1151.H69 2019

Contributors

Editor
Mark Graham
Editor
Rob Kitchin
Editor
Shannon Mattern
Editor
Joe Shaw
Designer
Carlos Romo-Melgar
Designer
John Philip Sage
Author
Mark Graham
Author
Rob Kitchin
Author
Shannon Mattern
Author
Joe Shaw
Author
Matthew Claudel
Author
Alison Powell
Author
Pip Thornton
Author
Jathan Sadowski
Author
Leighton Evans
Author
Sophia Maalsen
Author
Kurt Iveson
Author
Tooran Alizadeh
Author
Edward Helderop
Author
Tony Grubesic
Author
Matthew Zook
Author
Gavin Brown
Author
Jeremy Crampton
Author
Kara C. Hoover
Author
Harrison Smith
Author
Lizzie Richardson
Author
Martin Dodge
Author
Anthony Vanky
Author
Ryan Burns
Author
Manuel Aalbers
Author
Jennifer Gabyrs
Author
Gillian Rose
Author
Nancy Odendaal
Author
Dietmar Offenhuber
Author
Harvey Miller
Author
Alan Wiig
Author
Linnet Taylor
Author
Sarah Barns
Author
James Ash
Author
Andrew Iliadis
Author
Agnieszka Leszczynski
Author
Monica Stephens
Author
Jessica Foley
Author
Alberto Vanolo
Author
Jim Thatcher
Author
Cian O'Callaghan
Author
Ayona Datta
Author
Kalpana Shankar
Author
Glenn Kaufmann
Author
Katharine Willis

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
350

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL31995557M
ISBN 10
0995577676

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL24213353W

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