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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... Seoul 71 Sharing Production: The City as Collective Commons 78 3 Case Study: Copenhagen 137 Sharing Politics: The City as Public Realm 144 4 Case Study: Medellín 191 Sharing Society: Reclaiming the City 199 5 Case Study: Amsterdam 247 ...
... Seoul and Medellín are leading the revolution. And sharing is still part of daily life for many people in many cities across the global South. The Sharing Revolution isn't a revolution to be led by wealthy countries and copied by the ...
... Seoul, we consider the productive domains of the city. We begin by considering the sociocultural and biological co-evolution of sharing, exploring common features and cultural variations. We then examine key ways in which cities are 18 ...
... Seoul, and a public-private partnership approach in Amsterdam.5 With a growing population—roughly 825,000 in 2012—and a constrained location, San Francisco is becoming a laboratory for how commercial, mediated sharing interacts with ...
... Seoul and Bengaluru). In urban societies, but increasingly in others too, with the presence of smartphones and other technologies, we are witnessing a morphing of our evolutionary propensity for social-cultural sharing toward mediated ...
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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