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

1. Introduction Mike Hodson, Julia Kasmire, Andrew McMeekin, John G. Stehlin and Kevin Ward Part1: What kind of urban infrastructure are platforms? 2. The urban stack: A topology for urban data infrastructures Aaron Shapiro 3. Political ecologies of platform urbanism: Digital labour and data infrastructures Dillon Mahmoudi, Anthony M. Levenda and John G. Stehlin 4. Unicorns, platforms, and global cities: The economic geography of ride-hailing Shauna Brail 5. Digital infrastructures, services, and spaces: The geography of platform urbanism Alan Wiig and Michele Masucci Part2: Do platforms represent a new model of urban governance? 6. Joining the dots: Platform intermediation and the recombinatory governance of Ubers ecosystem Sarah Barns 7. A new institution on the block: On platform urbanism and Airbnb citizenship Niels van Doorn 8. The politics of the platform economy: Understanding platform legitimation tactics Luke Yates 9. Analysing urban platforms and inequality through a platform justice lens Richard Heeks & Satyarupa Shekhar Part3: What kinds of urban knowledge are generated, legitimized, and valued through platforms? 10. When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, extraction Jathan Sadowski 11. Platform urbanism and knowledge-power Maro Kriv 12. Wiki-urbanism: Curating a slum resettlement colony with open knowledge platforms Padmini Ray Murray and Ayona Datta 13. From panopticons to the partial: blockchain mapping in platform urbanism Clancy Wilmott Part4: How are platforms re-shaping everyday urban experiences? 14. Platform phenomenologies: Social media as experiential infrastructures of urban public life Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore 15. Urban consumption, markets and platforms as flexible spatial arrangements Lizzie Richardson 16. Between algorithms and the streets: The everyday politics of ride-hailing taxis in India Anurag Mazumdar 17. Platforms in the making: hacking the urban environment in Brazilian cities Andrs Luque-Ayala, Tharsila Maynardes Dallabona Fariniuk, Rodrigo Jos Firmino, Gilberto Vieira and Juliana Marques