Urban Platforms and the Future City

Transformations in Infrastructure, Governance, Knowledge and Everyday Life
Herausgeber: Hodson, Mike; Mcmeekin, Andrew; Kasmire, Julia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780367334185
• ISBN-10: 0367334186
• Artikelnr.: 59997958

Autorenporträt

Mike Hodson is senior research fellow in the Sustainable Consumption Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Urban Institute, UK. Julia Kasmire researches and teaches on how to use new forms of data for social scientists with the UK Data Service and the Cathie Marsh Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. Andrew McMeekin is Professor of Innovation at the Alliance Manchester Business School and the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), UK. John G. Stehlin is Assistant Professor in the department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Kevin Ward is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Director of the Manchester Urban Institute at the University of Manchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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