Platform Urbanism Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities

This book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and organisational logics of digital platforms. Where smart city strategies promote the roll-out of internet of things (IoT) technologies and big data analytics by city governments worldwide,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barns, Sarah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:Geographies of Media
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: When digital became platform
  • Chapter 3: City reverberations
  • Chapter 4: The Uberisation of Everything
  • Chapter 5: Making sense of platform intermediation
  • Chapter 6: Platform intermediation as recombinatory urban governance
  • Chapter 7: Intimate entanglements
  • Chapter 8: City bricolage: Imagining the city as a platform
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion: Rethinking public value in an era of platform scale