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Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
Duncan McLaren
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Description for 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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
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 ... Read more