Planning for Sharing – Providing Infrastructure for Citizens to be Makers and Sharers

Anna Hult and Karin Bradley

Planning Theory & Practice, 2017, vol. 18, issue 4, 597-615

Abstract: This paper explores how local authorities can develop infrastructure for collaborative consumption, i.e. sharing amongst citizens of tools, spaces and practical skills. The City of Malmö, Sweden, is used as a case study to illustrate the work with such “sharing infrastructure”. Existing planning research and planning practice for sustainability generally focus on facilitating citizens to live in a more eco-friendly way in terms of housing, modes of transport, waste flows and use of green space, but do not address citizens’ consumption of other material goods. This paper points to a potential role for local public planning in relation to collaborative consumption through creating sharing infrastructure, i.e. providing access to shared tools and spaces for making and repairing, thus enabling citizens to act in the city not only as consumers, but also as makers and sharers.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2017.1321776

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