Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable CitiesHow cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability. The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and commercialization of the public realm. In Sharing Cities, Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman argue that the intersection of cities' highly networked physical space with new digital technologies and new mediated forms of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart technology to justice, solidarity, and sustainability. McLaren and Agyeman explore the opportunities and risks for sustainability, solidarity, and justice in the changing nature of sharing. McLaren and Agyeman propose a new “sharing paradigm,” which goes beyond the faddish “sharing economy”—seen in such ventures as Uber and TaskRabbit—to envision models of sharing that are not always commercial but also communal, encouraging trust and collaboration. Detailed case studies of San Francisco, Seoul, Copenhagen, Medellín, Amsterdam, and Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) contextualize the authors' discussions of collaborative consumption and production; the shared public realm, both physical and virtual; the design of sharing to enhance equity and justice; and the prospects for scaling up the sharing paradigm though city governance. They show how sharing could shift values and norms, enable civic engagement and political activism, and rebuild a shared urban commons. Their case for sharing and solidarity offers a powerful alternative for urban futures to conventional “race-to-the-bottom” narratives of competition, enclosure, and division. |
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... , Julian Agyeman. Sharing Cities A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No.
... paper and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN: 978-0-262-02972-8 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Foreword by Mike Childs, Friends of the Earth, London.
... London vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Case Study: San Francisco 21 Sharing Consumption: The City as Platform 27 2 Case Study: Seoul 71 Sharing Production: The City as Collective Commons 78 3 Case Study: Copenhagen 137 Sharing ...
... London Ken Livingstone, Mayor Michael Bloomberg from New York, and others set up the C40 Cities Network a decade ago, they had the vision that cities will be the locations where the world's greatest environmental challenges will be ...
... London in the 1980s—Julian in local government, Duncan in the nonprofit world— this book was born in the inspiration and stimulation of conversations over several years about sustainability, urbanism, equity, and justice. Fortunately ...
Contents
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Seoul | 71 |
The City as Collective Commons | 78 |
Copenhagen | 137 |
The City as Public Realm | 144 |
Medellín | 191 |
Amsterdam | 247 |
Understanding and Acting on the Sharing | 252 |
Bengaluru | 311 |
Synthesis | 317 |
Notes | 327 |
Bibliography | 411 |
Index | 423 |
Series List | 446 |
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