Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Platformization of Urban Life

Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities

Edited by: Anke Strüver and Sybille Bauriedl

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459645

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About this book

The increasing platformisation 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.

Author / Editor information

Anke Strüver is a professor of Human Geography with a focus on Urban Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Austria). In 2004 she completed her PhD at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (Netherlands) on the socio-cultural production of cross-border spaces and their effects on everyday practices. Her research focuses on embodied human-environment relations in the city, especially along the themes of health, food, and active mobility, as well as digitalization and sustainable co-laboration.
Sybille Bauriedl is a professor of Integrative Geography at Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany). She has been researching and teaching sustainable urban development and global environmental conflicts since the 1990s. She is engaged in scientific networks of political ecology and feminist geography and is involved in the right to the city movement. Current research projects deal with local energy transition, smart urbanism, colonial infrastructure in European port cities, and climate justice.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
THANK YOU! Open Access Download PDF	9
Platformized Cities and Urban Life An Introduction Sybille Bauriedl and Anke Strüver Open Access Download PDF	11
CONDITIONS OF PLATFORMIZATION OF URBAN LIFE
Platforms Becoming Infrastructural? Mapping Socio-Spatial Transformations Rabea Berfelde and Vicky Kluzik Open Access Download PDF	37
From Smart to Platform Urbanism to Platform Municipalism Planning Ideas for Platforms in Toronto and Vienna Astrid Krisch Open Access Download PDF	53
The Politics of Geodata in Urban Platform Capitalism Boris Michel and Susanne Schröder-Bergen Open Access Download PDF	73
Looking for Glitches in Mobility Platforms Henk Wiechers Open Access Download PDF	85
PLATFORM-MEDIATED CARE-WORK IN CITIES
Platform Care as Care Fix Emma Dowling Open Access Download PDF	101
Second Shift 2.0 Intensifying Housework in Platform Urbanism Maartje Roelofsen and Kiley Goyette Open Access Download PDF	119
“When Clean Angels Calls, I Run” Working Conditions of a Gigified Care-Worker Marisol Keller Open Access Download PDF	135
Platforms for Basic Needs Rethinking their Infrastructuralization as Reflective of Elsewhere Christiane Tristl and Anke Strüver Open Access Download PDF	149
SPATIAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PLATFORMIZATION
#FairDelivery? Potential for and Limits to Alternative Platformization Yannick Ecker Open Access Download PDF	169
Riders United Will Never Be Divided? A Cautionary Tale of Disrupting the Platformization of Urban Space Barbara Orth Open Access Download PDF	185
<title>“Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_Visible Infrastructure in the Production of Urbanity” </title> <meta name=“EmergeError”> Open Access Download PDF	205
Ordinary Invitations in Spaces of Everyday Life Arriving in Neighborhood Life through Analogue Platforms Yvonne Franz Open Access Download PDF	217
PLATFORM CAPITALISM IN NEOLIBERAL TIMES
Echo Chambers of Urban Design Platformization in Architecture and Planning Cordula Kropp, Kathrin Braun and Yana Boeva Open Access Download PDF	237
The Financialization of the Housing Market in the Digital Era Airbnb in Berlin Katalin Gennburg Open Access Download PDF	259
Smart Ambivalences Social Economy and Capitalist Rationalities Intersecting in the Field of Sharing Andreas Exner and Thomas Höflehner Open Access Download PDF	269
Platform Urbanization and Citizenship An Inquiry and Projection Filippo Bignami and Naomi C. Hanakata Open Access Download PDF	281
Biographies Open Access Download PDF	297

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: City; Platform Economy; Urban Space; Inequalities; Urban Infrastructures; Right To the City; Gig Economy; Internet; Economy; Urban Studies; Economic Sociology; Cultural Geography; Sociology

eBook

Published: September 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839459645