> Its executives have floated the idea of taking some struggling city – Detroit? – and reinventing it around Alphabet services, with no annoying regulations blocking this march of progress.

This is pretty much exactly the plot of Robocop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop

"Google Urbanism means the end of politics, as it assumes the impossibility of wider systemic transformations"

That would serve as a definition of neofeudalism.

no duh. Why do people tolerate google? Nobody is so dumb to not realize what they're doing, everyone has seen or read 1984.

Something doesn't add up.