Dan Hill writes well, keeps his eyes open and obviously
reads voraciously. When he has the time
to add to his blog ‘City of Sound’, it is usually a long form piece, teased out
in loops of delicious in-group citations, but as often as not with a serious
question at its heart.
And so it is in the latest Opinion he contributes to Dezeen,
which is really just his latest column on his own blog. The concrete subject of the piece is the Uber taxi app,
but the target is "Can public enterprises adopt the popular dynamics of
private enterprises?"
Actually, Hill answers that question in the affirmative, so the really truly relevant discussion is whether there is
something fundamentally destructive going on, impacting communities at city and nation state scale (to which we more usually refer as 'societies'), and to which those ‘popular dynamics’ may be something of an antidote?
