Urban Platforms and the Future City: Transformations in Infrastructure, Governance, Knowledge and Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9780367334185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str.

Mike Hodson; Julia Kasmire; Andrew McMeekin

Opis

This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the emergence of “platform urbanism”, examining how it transforms urban infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday life, and brings together leading scholars and early-career researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: What kind of urban infrastructure are platforms?  2. The urban stack: A topology for urban data infrastructures  3. Political ecologies of platform urbanism: Digital labor and data infrastructures  4. Unicorns, platforms, and global cities: The economic geography of ride-hailing  5. Digital infrastructures, services, and spaces: The geography of platform urbanism  Part 2: Do platforms represent a new model of urban governance?  6. Joining the dots: Platform intermediation and the recombinatory governance of Uber’s ecosystem  7. A new institution on the block: On platform urbanism and Airbnb citizenship  8. Political struggles in the platform economy: Understanding platform legitimation tactics  9. Analysing urban platforms and inequality through a ‘platform justice’ lens  Part 3: What kinds of urban knowledge are generated, legitimised, and valued through platforms?  10. When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, extraction  11. Platform urbanism and knowledge-power  12. Wiki-urbanism: Curating a slum resettlement colony with open knowledge platforms  13. From panopticons to the partial: blockchain mapping in platform urbanism  Part 4: How are platforms re-shaping everyday urban experiences?  14. Platform phenomenologies: Social media as experiential infrastructures of urban public life  15. Urban consumption, markets and platforms as flexible spatial arrangements  16. Between algorithms and the streets: The everyday politics of ride-hailing taxis in India  17. Platforms in the making: hacking the urban environment in Brazilian cities