Handbook of Platform Urbanism

Edited by Annelien Smets and Pieter Ballon

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This innovative Handbook provides an in-depth exploration of how digital platforms are reshaping cities worldwide. It presents a comprehensive analysis of data-driven urban life, evaluating how platforms including Uber, Airbnb and Google Maps mediate public services, economic activities and social interactions.

Keywords: Urban Governance And Regulation; Digital Platforms; Algorithmic Governance; Urban Economy; Urban Platformisation; Corporate Power And Tech Giants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035313754
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to platform urbanism

Pieter Ballon and Annelien Smets

Ch 2 Platform urbanism: ideology, capitalism and inequalities

Federico Caprotti

Ch 3 The platform playbook: platforms as powerful organisational models for future cities

Sarah Barns

Ch 4 Platform sabotage

Aaron Shapiro

Ch 5 The urban political economy of attention: the case of São Paulo's Centro

Petter Törnberg

Ch 6 Platform-based urban entrepreneurialism in China: the case of Zibo, the city of barbecue

Han Chu and Robert Hassink

Ch 7 Crowdfunding and value-sharing: the case of saving the Gartenbaukino cinema

Anders Rykkja and Carolina Dalla Chiesa

Ch 8 Subsidising network effects: the case of carpooling in France

Antoine Verhulst

Ch 9 Public-Private Partnerships in smart cities and the privatisation of citizenship

Bárbara Lazarotto and Paul De Hert

Ch 10 How law enables platform urbanism: the case of municipal power and platform regulation

Beatriz Botero Arcila

Ch 11 Institutional strategies in the sharing economy: the case of ride-hailing and hospitality lodging in Brussels

Michaël Distelmans and Ilse Scheerlinck

Ch 12 AI Localism: the emergence of AI governance at the local level

Sara Marcucci, Natalia González Alarcón and Stefaan Verhulst

Ch 13 Representation of space in Google Maps: the case of Poznań

Maciej Główczyński

Ch 14 Urban assemblages through digital platforms: the case of Istanbul

Fatih Eren

Ch 15 Methods in platform urbanism: everyday platform urbanism and ethnography

Johan Vaide

Ch 16 Platform commoning as a path to social justice in the datafied city

Laura Temmerman and Dorottya Varga

Ch 17 Platform cooperatives: the case of Gebiedonline

Filipe Mello Rose

Ch 18 Urban platforms as drivers of socio-environmental transformations: the case of civic monitoring and citizens’ assemblies around Milan

Anna Berti Suman

Ch 19 Dual spatiality in platform communities: the case of Drivers Club Bogotá

Luis Hernando Lozano Paredes and Gabriela Quintana Vigiola

Ch 20 Methods in platform urbanism: participatory approaches and citizen science

Liubov Tupikina, Zahra Farook and Muki Haklay

Ch 21 Platformisation, technical citizenship and making space for rights in the city

Aphra Kerr and Jo Pierson

Ch 22 Soft masculinities: the case of food delivery platform workers in Helsinki

Yu-Shan Tseng

Ch 23 Contested data: the case of the gentrifying neighbourhood of Parc-Extension, Montréal

Yaya Baumann, Alessandra Renzi, Sepideh Shahamati and Tamara Vukov

Ch 24 Do smart cities need smart contracts? Community Benefits Agreements as blockchain-enabled accountability frameworks

Ushnish Sengupta

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