Shaping space and being shaped by it: analysing the socio-spatial dialectic of food delivery platforms

Heiner Heiland

Chapter 2 in The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, 2025, pp 22-36 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Platform-mediated food delivery labour is particularly tied to the specific local spaces in which it operates. Urban space is the primary component of delivery services’ labour processes. The chapter examines this connection between platforms and cities. It emphasises that platforms are not just virtual arrangements that mediate previously existing services in a different way, but rather they are part of local structures and processes. It is pointed out how they utilise, restructure and produce urban space (shaping), and how, on the other hand, the structures and possibilities of the platforms are determined by this space (being shaped). The result is a socio-spatial dialectic as a mutual constitutive interplay between social and spatial relations.

Keywords: Urban space; Food delivery; Platform urbanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035321131
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