Abstract

Theorizing the outcomes of future cities operated under the various business and technologies of different global corporations, How to Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables offers not only an entertaining collection of ideas, but also a view to how else we might communicate research ideas and theory. Implicitly, the collection puts strain on the relevance of the academic publishing model for real-world research dissemination and public engagement. Being freely available online in PDF format on the independent publisher Meatspace Press's website, and featuring a variously successful mix of fact and fiction, How to Run a City Like Amazon challenges notions of genre and form, as well as the hierarchies of high...