The mentality was that the cities were too broken to fix. There was this urban crisis and Uber, in the wake of the Great Recession, took all this money and capital, Saudi money, soft fake money, and saw a problem around urban transit and underemployment and offered a solution...an unequal relationship with underfunded cities.

Geographer Katie J. Wells joins Chuck to discuss Uber's takeover of urban transportation. Wells is the author of Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City with Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen from Princeton University Press.

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Katie J. Wells

@KatieJWells

Katie J. Wells is a geographer who studies urban change. She thinks about how tech affects the way we live in cities, and especially how we work in them. Wells is a postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University’s new Tech & Society initiative and based in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program. She is also an affiliated fellow with the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation and the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative. Wells is the author of Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City with Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen from Princeton University Press.

https://www.katiejwells.net/

The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City / Katie J. Wells

Katie J. Wells