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How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

by Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Christine Mattern, Joe Shaw · 2019

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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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adult
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medium · 350 pages

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