The city algorithm

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  • Published 20160503
  • ISBN: 978-1-925240-81-8
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

This image is a computer-generated projection of a standard 2040 global city of eight million citizens. 

It is based on an Amaz-Apple-Fox-Sony mainframe supporting a Google/Westfield App platform. The decision-making algorithm used to design the City is the result of aggregating the democratic behavioural records of old Government Hansards, minutes of all known Council meetings, Tribunal findings, civil and criminal legal records, and notes from school parents nights since the year of Facebook 2004.

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