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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... example on the subways of America's great cities, or the London Underground, or the Bus Rapid Transit Systems springing up across Latin America. The green spaces in our cities are shared, and their loss or privatization is fiercely ...
... example through membership of carsharing or film rental services). And, more significantly, while sharing on the margins of legality, such as squatting, may not constitute sharing between the formal owner and user of the property; it ...
... example, the editor of the Vox Media website, Matthew Yglesias, argues that commercial mediated sharing is not sharing at all, but just constitutes short-term rentals, or secondary markets.49 And the journalist Sven Eberlein claims ...
... example—around 40 million workers.4 San Francisco is a leading “smart city,” following the advocacy of companies such as IBM and Siemens, and the city government is actively encouraging San Francisco's status as the epicenter of ...
... example, parabolic acoustic amplifiers have been installed at Market Street and Yerba Buena Lane. These have been “adopted by street performers who quietly strum a banjo on one, while hundreds of pedestrians are strolling past on the ...
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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