Disneyland with the Death Penalty

Distrust That Particular Flavor

by William Gibson  · 3 Jan 2012  · 153pp  · 45,871 words

Rocket Radio Since 1948 Any ’Mount of World The Baddest Dude on Earth Talk for Book Expo, New York Dead Man Sings Up the Line Disneyland with the Death Penalty Mr. Buk’s Window Shiny Balls of Mud: Hikaru Dorodango and Tokyu Hands An Invitation Metrophagy: The Art and Science of Digesting Great Cities Modern

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version of Zurich operating as an offshore capsule at the foot of Malaysia; an affluent microcosm whose citizens inhabit something that feels like, well, Disneyland. Disneyland with the death penalty. But Disneyland wasn’t built atop an equally peculiar nineteenth-century theme park—something constructed to meet both the romantic longings and purely mercantile needs

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, 1998. “Up the Line” speech delivered at Directors Guild of America’s Digital Day, Los Angeles, May 17, 2003. Published here for the first time. “Disneyland with the Death Penalty” copyright © 1993 by William Gibson. First published by Wired magazine, January 2004. “Mr. Buk’s Window” copyright © 2001 by William Gibson. First published by www

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  · 7 Oct 2024  · 336pp  · 104,899 words

metropolis. Visitors remark that Singapore feels like a country run by management consultants (a somewhat kinder take than the science fiction author William Gibson’s “Disneyland with the death penalty”). That’s deliberate. Lee’s innovation was to deploy the sovereign privilege of passing laws and building infrastructure—what we think of as public projects

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

by Stefan Al  · 11 Apr 2022  · 300pp  · 81,293 words

penalties on offenses such as spitting and chewing gum, author William Gibson, no stranger to dystopian visions of the future, once described the city as “Disneyland with the Death penalty.” Nevertheless, as carbon emissions are heating up our atmosphere and urbanization is disrupting our natural system, Singapore remains a test bed for a more sustainable

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 14 May 2014  · 372pp  · 92,477 words

taxes. He went on to create one of the smallest governments in the world. It is easy to make fun of his creation. Singapore is Disneyland with the death penalty, paradise as designed by McKinsey, a supersized shopping mall where chewing gum is banned and litterbugs given a thrashing. For all his talk about “Asian

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

by Leo Hollis  · 31 Mar 2013  · 385pp  · 118,314 words

self-governing status in 1959 and independence in 1963: Lee Kuan Yew’s People’s Action Party (PAP). Singapore has been called many things, from ‘Disneyland with the death penalty’10 to ‘one of the cleanest, safest, richest and dullest cities in the world’,11 but there is no question that, in its first fifty