num_pages: 256
description: There has been a revolution in urban transportation over the past five yearsset off by start-ups across the US and internationally. Sleek legible mobility platforms are connecting people to cars trains buses and bikes as never before opening up a range of new transportation options while improving existing ones. While many large city governments such as Chicago New York and Washington D.C. have begun to embrace creative forms and processes of government most still operate under the weight of an unwieldy risk-averse bureaucracy.With the advent of self-driving vehicles and other technological shifts upon us Gabe Klein asks how we can close the gap between the energized aggressive world of start-ups and the complex bureaucracies struggling to change beyond a geologic time scale. From his experience as a food-truck entrepreneur to a ZipCar executive and a city transportation commissioner Kleins career has focused on bridging the public-private divide finding and celebrating shared goals and forging better cities with more nimble consumer-oriented bureaucracies.In Start-Up City Klein with David Vega-Barachowitz demonstrates how to affect big directional change in citiesand how to do it fast. Klein's objective is to inspire what he calls public entrepreneurship a start-up-pace energy within the public sector brought about by leveraging the immense resources at its disposal. Klein offers guidance for cutting through the morass and a roadmap for getting real meaningful projects done quickly and having fun while doing it.This book is for anyone who wants to change the way we live in cities without waiting for the glacial pace of change in government.
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title: Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun
publisher: Island Press