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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... growing cities of the developing world, especially considering the downsides of too enthusiastic a pursuit of “smartness” at the cost of sharing and justice. Finally in our concluding synthesis, we return to the case we set out above ...
... growing market. Freelancers make up somewhat over one-fifth of the US workforce, for 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 ...
... growing population—roughly 825,000 in 2012—and a constrained location, San Francisco is becoming a laboratory for how commercial, mediated sharing interacts with public urban challenges. Mayor Ed Lee has attributed the city's rise from ...
... growing inequality,2 and the togetherness of cities replaced by private withdrawal.3 Yet at the same time, a new, distinct, and predominantly urban form of (inter)mediated sharing is emerging, exemplified best in “smart” and “wired ...
... growing global sharing economy predicted by Price Waterhouse Coopers to exceed $335 billion annual turnover by 2025. 5 Airbnb is typical in using a brokering model: in exchange for providing the market and services like customer support ...
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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