Urban Platforms and the Future City

<p>This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the emergence of “platform urbanism” examining how it transforms urban infrastructure governance knowledge production and everyday life and brings together leading scholars and early-career researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines.</p><p>The volume advances theoretical debates at the leading edge of the intersection between urbanism governance and the digital economy by drawing on a range of empirically detailed cases from which to theorize the multiplicity of forms that platform urbanism takes. It draws international comparisons between urban platforms across sites with attention to the leading edges of theory and practice and explores the potential for a renewal of civic life engagement and participatory governance through “platform cooperativism” and related movements. A breadth of tangible and diverse examples of platform urbanism provides critical insights to scholars examining the interface of digital technologies and urban infrastructure urban governance urban knowledge production and everyday urban life.</p><p>The book will be invaluable on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as for academics and researchers in these fields including 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 realms of citizen engagement industrial strategy regeneration sustainable development and transport.</p>