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Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

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How cities can build on the sharing economy and smart technology to deliver a sharing paradigm that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability. The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing-of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and commercialization of the public realm. In Sharing Cities, Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman argue that the intersection of cities' highly networked physical space with new digital technologies and new mediated forms of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart technology to justice, solidarity, and sustainability. McLaren and Agyeman explore the opportunities and risks for sustainability, solidarity, and justice in the changing nature of sharing. McLaren and Agyeman propose a new sharing paradigm, which goes beyond the faddish sharing economy -seen in such ventures as Uber and TaskRabbit-to envision models of sharing that are not always commercial but also communal, encouraging trust and collaboration. Detailed case studies of San Francisco, Seoul, Copenhagen, Medellin, Amsterdam, and Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) contextualize the authors' discussions of collaborative consumption and production; the shared public realm, both physical and virtual; the design of sharing to enhance equity and justice; and the prospects for scaling up the sharing paradigm though city governance. They show how sharing could shift values and norms, enable civic engagement and political activism, and rebuild a shared urban commons. Their case for sharing and solidarity offers a powerful alternative for urban futures to conventional race-to-the-bottom narratives of competition, enclosure, and division.

Product Details

Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Urban and Industrial Environments
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262533713
SKU
V9780262533713
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Duncan McLaren
Duncan McLaren, former Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland, is Director of McLaren Environmental Research and Consultancy. Julian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is coauthor of Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (MIT Press) and other books.

Reviews for Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
Sharing Cities is a wake-up call to policy makers, businesspeople, and community leaders: There has never been a better-or more urgent-time to build a shared urban future. -Stanford Social Innovation Review In Sharing Cities, environmental consultant Duncan McLaren and urban-policy scholar Julian Agyeman lay out, with impressive depth, clarity and wisdom, a comprehensive prescription for a sharing paradigm....bottom-up ventures that are digital or based in communities, rather than commercial. -Nature

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