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Urban Platforms and the Future City: Transformations in Infrastructure, Governance, Knowledge and Everyday Life

Urban Platforms and the Future City: Transformations in Infrastructure, Governance, Knowledge and Everyday Life

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The book "Platform Urbanism" explores the emergence of "platform urbanism" and its transformative effects on urban infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday life. It brings together leading scholars and early-career researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines to advance theoretical debates and explore the potential for a renewal of civic life, engagement, and participatory governance through "platform cooperativism" and related movements.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd


This title takes a broad and in-depth look at the emergence of "platform urbanism," exploring how it reshapes urban infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday life. It brings together renowned scholars and early-career researchers from across five continents and various disciplines to delve into the complexities of this phenomenon. The volume pushes the boundaries of theoretical debates at the forefront of the intersection between urbanism, governance, and the digital economy. By drawing on a diverse range of empirically detailed cases, it theorizes the diverse forms that platform urbanism takes. It also conducts international comparisons between urban platforms across different sites, highlighting the cutting-edge edges of theory and practice. Furthermore, the book explores the potential for a renewal of civic life, engagement, and participatory governance through "platform cooperativism" and related movements.

A wealth of tangible and diverse examples of platform urbanism offer valuable insights to scholars examining the interplay between digital technologies and urban infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday urban life. The book is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as for academics and researchers in anthropology, geography, innovation studies, politics, public policy, science and technology studies, sociology, sustainable development, urban planning, and urban studies. It will also appeal to an engaged, academia-adjacent readership, including city and regional planners, policymakers, and third-sector researchers in the areas of citizen engagement, industrial strategy, regeneration, sustainable development, and transport.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367334192

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