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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... important as these joint acknowledgements are our individual ones: From Duncan: My partner Pernilla Rinsell, and our children Alex and Emelie, deserve deepest thanks for their support and tolerance—and maybe when they see their names ...
... important though “environmental” aspects of sustainability are. A truly sustainable society is one where wider questions of social needs and welfare, and economic opportunity are integrally related to environmental limits imposed by ...
... important new form or modality of market exchange in which services become the focus of exchange, rights of access replace ownership, and we collaborate with our peers to better fulfill our needs as consumers. The sharing economy also ...
... importance of public contributions, freely given, means to roll back privatization and marketization, and to resist the enclosure of the natural and cultural commons. In these ways sharing approaches first problematize, then disrupt ...
... importance of underlying productive capital (and whether it too can be or is shared), but also, like conventional economic analysis, they are typically blind to the collective commons (of physical and virtual public spaces and services) ...
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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Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities Duncan McLaren,Julian Agyeman Limited preview - 2015 |
Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities Duncan McLaren,Julian Agyeman No preview available - 2017 |
Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities Duncan McLaren,Julian Agyeman No preview available - 2015 |