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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... living will become the norm for most of humanity in coming decades. These are the places where most consumption takes place. The energy consumed in our cities to heat our homes and power our transport is driving climate change. The food ...
... living in cities; that builds empathy and understanding between people rather than fear and loathing; that leads to much greater levels of sharing of stuff and much greater resource efficiency; that takes naturally evolved cultural ...
... living in extreme poverty, amid rising income inequality and the lack of affordable housing, in a world slowly facing up to the realities of multiple resource scarcities, biodiversity loss, and climate change. According to leading ...
... living. This means understanding cities as the political, economic, and cultural drivers of global society, and thus linking the sharing of urban spaces to the sharing of global resources. It also means understanding cities in ...
... living and disregards and degrades priceless assets (such as our natural environment) or exacerbates social and spatial inequalities and injustices. The urban and political geographer David Harvey suggests that the continued dominance ...
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 |