Urban platforms and the future city : transformations in infrastructure, governance, knowledge and everyday life /: transformations in infrastructure, governance, knowledge and everyday life. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mike Hodson, Julia Kasmire, Andrew McMeekin, John G. Stehlin, Kevin Ward.
• Editors: Hodson, Mike; Kasmire, Julia; McMeekin, Andrew; Stehlin, John G; Ward, Kevin, 1969-
• Contents: 1. Introduction Mike Hodson, Julia Kasmire, Andrew McMeekin, John G. Stehlin and Kevin Ward Part 1: What kind of urban infrastructure are platforms? 2. The urban stack: A topology for urban data infrastructures Aaron Shapiro 3. Political ecologies of platform urbanism: Digital labour and data infrastructures Dillon Mahmoudi, Anthony M. Levenda and John G. Stehlin 4. Unicorns, platforms, and global cities: The economic geography of ride-hailing Shauna Brail 5. Digital infrastructures, services, and spaces: The geography of platform urbanism Alan Wiig and Michele Masucci Part 2: Do platforms represent a new model of urban governance? 6. Joining the dots: Platform intermediation and the recombinatory governance of Uber’s ecosystem Sarah Barns 7. A new institution on the block: On platform urbanism and Airbnb citizenship Niels van Doorn 8. Political struggles in the platform economy: Understanding platform legitimation tactics Luke Yates 9. Analysing urban platforms and inequality through a ‘platform justice’ lens Richard Heeks & Satyarupa Shekhar Part 3: What kinds of urban knowledge are generated, legitimized, and valued through platforms? 10. When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, extraction Jathan Sadowski 11. Platform urbanism and knowledge-power Maroš Krivý 12. Wiki-urbanism: Curating a slum resettlement colony with open knowledge platforms Padmini Ray Murray and Ayona Datta 13. From panopticons to the partial: blockchain mapping in platform urbanism Clancy Wilmott Part 4: How are platforms re-shaping everyday urban experiences? 14. Platform phenomenologies: Social media as experiential infrastructures of urban public life Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore 15. Urban consumption, markets and platforms as flexible spatial arrangements Lizzie Richardson 16. Between algorithms and the streets: The everyday politics of ride-hailing taxis in India Anurag Mazumdar 17. Platforms in the making: hacking the urban environment in Brazilian cities Andrés Luque-Ayala, Tharsila Maynardes Dallabona Fariniuk, Rodrigo José Firmino, Gilberto Vieira and Juliana Marques
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 307.1216; City planning -- Environmental aspects; Sustainable urban development; Urban policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000220643; 9781000220605; 9781000220629; 9780429319754
• Related ISBNs: 9780367334185; 9780367334192
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