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Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities
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Abstract The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. ... view more
The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.... view less
Keywords
town; digitalization; public space; social space; infrastructure; mechanization; everyday life
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Technology Assessment
Free Keywords
Platform Economy; Urban Space; Inequalities; Right To the City; Gig Economy; Internet; Economy; Urban Studies; Economic Sociology; Cultural Geography
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
302 p.
Series
Urban Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459645
ISSN
2747-3635
ISBN
978-3-8394-5964-5
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0