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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... percent in the global South and 85.9 percent in the global North by 2050,13 intersecting an even faster rise in populations with access to cyberspace.14 This rapid rate of urbanization highlights the interlinked economic, social, and ...
... percent,” he says. “We're at a crossroads where technology exists to help the common worker break free from traditional employment models. I felt it was important it be owned by the workers.”33 San Francisco demonstrates some of the ...
... percent cut from the host and a 6–12 percent cut from the guest, which varies depending on the property price.6 Airbnb is perhaps the leading example of the commercial mediated sharing platforms that are spreading through the urban ...
... percent) and Latin America, Africa and Middle East (around 70 percent) than in North America and Europe (around 50 percent).21 In the Latitude survey, most participants (78 percent) had also used a local, peer-to-peer web platform such ...
... percent) tops the motivations for older Americans sharing or renting, while cost (45 percent) dominates for younger ones. Younger respondents also cite minimizing waste and conserving the environment as motivations about twice as ...
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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