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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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Meatspace Press
Language
English
Pages
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

Copyright Date
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

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
350

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OL31995557M
Internet Archive
how_to_run_a_city_like_amazon_and_other_fables_version_single_pages
ISBN 10
0995577676

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