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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... land ownership and taxation. In chapter 4 we explore the scope for the sharing city to enhance equity and social justice, following an examination of Medellín. The first part of the chapter situates the sharing paradigm in contemporary ...
... land, produce, recipes, meals and even leftovers and unsold foodstuffs. We discuss shared food production later (see “Growing Together” in chapter 2), but here we focus on the consumption side where mediated sharing—both commercial and ...
... land availability, rising energy prices and climate change.86 This fundamental uncertainty is reflected in consumer attitudes. The marketing analyst Nigel Piercy and his colleagues suggest we have entered an “'age of thrift' which has ...
... land, or maximize use of other existing resources for the enjoyment of the greater public. There is little detailed research into the environmental implications of sharing. But what does exist suggests the immediate benefits could be ...
... land sharing offers major environmental benefits as well. Increased density is a land use and environmental aspect of sharing: the greater density, the greater level of sharing. In British Columbia, Canada, research has also shown 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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